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Record W4295833787 · doi:10.5751/jfo-00172-930304

Risky foraging by Ring-billed Gulls (Larus delawarensis)

2022· article· en· W4295833787 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Ryan Call, Dave Shutler

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Field Ornithology · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueMcGill University
KeywordsBiologyForagingPhysalisPredationZoologyFisheryEcologyBotany

Abstract

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Organisms escape consumers using a variety of behaviors and structural or physiological defenses (e.g., toxins and irritants). Portuguese men o’ war (<em>Physalia physalis</em>) rely on nematocysts to immobilize or kill their prey, chiefly fish, but the nematocysts can also be painful or deadly to predators. Consequently, few species are known to approach, let alone consume, <em>P. physalis</em>. During an opportunistic birding excursion in coastal Texas, ~5 Ring-billed Gulls (<em>Larus delawarensis</em>) were observed picking up beached <em>P. physalis</em>, taking them to the water’s edge, and thrashing them in the water briefly before consuming them, or at least parts of them. These are among a very limited number of records of birds consuming <em>P. physalis</em>.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.191
Threshold uncertainty score0.993

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.239 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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