Wakefield, Ewan D.; Bodey, Thomas W.; Bearhop, Stuart; Blackburn, Jez; Colhoun, Kendrew; Davies, Rachel; Dwyer, Ross G.; Green, Jonathan A.; Gremillet, David; Jackson, Andrew L.; Jessopp, Mark J.; Kane, Adam; Langston, Rowena H.W.; Lescroel, Amélie; Murray, Stuart; Le Nuz, Mélanie; Patrick, Samantha C.; Peron, Clara; Soanes, Louise M.; Wanless, Sarah 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2788-4606; Votier, Stephen C.; Hamer, Keith C..
2013
Space partitioning without territoriality in gannets.
Science, 341 (6141).
68-70.
10.1126/science.1236077
Colonial breeding is widespread among animals. Some, such as eusocial insects, may use agonistic behavior to partition available foraging habitat into mutually exclusive territories; others, such as breeding seabirds, do not. We found that northern gannets, satellite-tracked from twelve neighboring colonies, nonetheless forage in largely mutually exclusive areas and that these colony-specific home ranges are determined by density-dependent competition. This segregation may be enhanced by individual-level public information transfer, leading to cultural evolution and divergence among colonies.
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