Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer

Andrew M. Edwards (), Richard A. Phillips, Nicholas W. Watkins, Mervyn P. Freeman, Eugene J. Murphy, Vsevolod Afanasyev, Sergey V. Buldyrev, M. G. E. da Luz, E. P. Raposo, H. Eugene Stanley and Gandhimohan M. Viswanathan
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Andrew M. Edwards: British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Richard A. Phillips: British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Nicholas W. Watkins: British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Mervyn P. Freeman: British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Eugene J. Murphy: British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Vsevolod Afanasyev: British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Sergey V. Buldyrev: Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
M. G. E. da Luz: Universidade Federal do Paraná, C. P. 19044, 81531-990, Curitiba-PR, Brazil
E. P. Raposo: Laboratório de Física Teórica e Computacional, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50670-901, Recife-PE, Brazil
H. Eugene Stanley: Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Gandhimohan M. Viswanathan: Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 57072-970, Maceió-AL, Brazil

Nature, 2007, vol. 449, issue 7165, 1044-1048

Abstract: Levy flights are random walks characterised by many short steps and rare long steps. They display fractal properties, have no typical scale, and occur in physical and chemical systems. On the basis of high-resolution data and new analyses, previous claims that wandering albatrosses perform Levy flights when searching for prey on the ocean surface are shown to be unfounded. A new method is proposed for use when testing for power-law distributions.

Date: 2007
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