Cape gannet (Morus capensis)
Malgas Island & Lambert's Bay, South Africa Jan 02
Nov-Dec 02

* Time-budget and partition of feeding activity (Ropert-Coudert et al. 2004a).
* Plunge activity monitored by accelerometers (Ropert-Coudert et al. 2004b).
* Preferred foraging zones (GPS tracking) and marine productivity (Grémillet et al. 2004).
* Looking for a way to sex the gannets visually (Ropert-Coudert et al. 2005).
* Foraging effort measured by ECG recorders (Ropert-Coudert et al. in press).
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS IN THE PERCY FITZPATRICK INSTITUTE NEWS

D Grémillet (CNRS, France), PG Ryan (Percy FitzPatrick Institute, South Africa), A Kato (NIPR, Japan).