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Alasdair I Houston¹

¹School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, UK. a.i.houston@bristol.ac.uk

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This review critically examines recent challenges to optimal diving models for aquatic birds and mammals. It argues these challenges misrepresent models and data, suggesting new theoretical approaches in behavioral ecology.

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Area of Science:

Behavioral Ecology
Physiology
Animal Behavior

Background:

Aquatic birds and mammals must surface to breathe while foraging underwater.
Optimal diving models aim to explain foraging behavior based on physiological constraints.
Recent studies have questioned the validity of existing optimal diving models.

Purpose of the Study:

Critically review recent papers challenging optimal diving models.
Address misrepresentations of models and data in existing critiques.
Propose new theoretical models and explore theory-data relationships in behavioral ecology.

Main Methods:

Literature review and critical analysis of recent publications.
Evaluation of the assumptions and predictions of optimal diving models.
Exploration of qualitative versus quantitative predictions in ecological modeling.

Main Results:

Recent critiques often misrepresent the assumptions and predictions of optimal diving models.
Inappropriate tests have been used to challenge existing models.
The current debate highlights the need for refined theoretical frameworks.

Conclusions:

Existing critiques of optimal diving models are flawed.
New theoretical models are needed to better understand diving behavior.
The relationship between theory and data in behavioral ecology requires further exploration, considering both qualitative and quantitative predictions.