Stereotyped feeding behaviors of polyphenic bluegill sunfish

CJ Moran, CL Rzucidlo, RM Carlowicz… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
feeding kinematics to match prey type (Liem, 1978, 1979), we hypothesized that pelagic
bluegills will exhibit a stereotyped feeding behavior … Finally, we expected littoral bluegills to have …

Kinematics of feeding in bluegill sunfish: is there a general distinction between aquatic capture and transport behaviors?

GB Gillis, GV Lauder - Journal of experimental biology, 1995 - journals.biologists.com
… , the bluegill sunfish) to examine the generality of differences between capture and transport
behaviors in … distinct from capture behavior and that the distinctions between these two …

Laboratory constraints on feeding behaviours in polymorphic bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus)

CJ Moran, CL Rzucidlo, DJ Ellerby… - Freshwater Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
feeding studies. Thus, through direct observation, we aim to describe feeding behaviours of
bluegill sunfish … while evaluating the constraints laboratory settings places on feeding events. …

Bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) foraging behavior under temporally varying food conditions

ML Wildhaber, LB Crowder - Copeia, 1995 - JSTOR
bluegill was used in more than one test series; thus, the results we report represent the
behavior of 42 randomly chosen bluegills. … at time scales less than our 40-min feeding periods. …

Behavioural response of juvenile bluegill sunfish to variation in predation risk and food level

V Gotceitas, P Colgan - Ethology, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
… results demonstrate the flexibility of juvenile bluegill foraging behaviour. … fed pieces of
frozen fish supplemented with live bluegills. Largemouth bass are a natural predator of bluegills

The effects of intraspecific competition on the prey capture behavior and kinematics of the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus

JA Pfeiffenberger, PJ Motta - Environmental biology of fishes, 2012 - Springer
… individuals feedingfeeding kinematics will be faster at higher levels of competition compared
to lower levels of competition, and (2) bluegill should shift from more suction-based feeding

Production and food utilization in a population of bluegill sunfish

SD Gerking - Ecological Monographs, 1962 - JSTOR
The object of this research is to describe quantitatively the relationship between a bluegill
sunfish (Lepomris macrochirus) population and its food sup-ply, benthos and entomostraca. …

Quantification of flow during suction feeding in bluegill sunfish

LA Ferry-Graham, PC Wainwright, GV Lauder - Zoology, 2003 - Elsevier
… -feeding vertebrates use … feeding fish. We used a new approach; Digital Particle Image
Velocimetery (DPIV) to measure several attributes of the flow generated by feeding bluegill sunfish

Spatial and temporal patterns of water flow generated by suction-feeding bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus resolved by Particle Image Velocimetry

SW Day, TE Higham, AY Cheer… - Journal of …, 2005 - journals.biologists.com
… Our study presents data for a high-performance suction feeder (bluegill sunfish) over a
moderate range of feeding behavior, as characterized by peak gape, PG, and time to peak gape, …

The role of foraging profitability and experience in habitat use by the bluegill sunfish

EE Werner, GG Mittelbach, DJ Hall - Ecology, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
… Increase in capture rate with experience for bluegill sunfish feeding on Chironomus (a) and
Daphnia (b) in aquaria. One experiment was performed per day. Points represent :i ą Ise for …