Evidence for biological L\'evy flights stands

Edwards et al. [Nature 449, 1044-1048 (2007)] revisited well-known studies reporting power-laws in the frequency distribution of flight duration of wandering albatrosses, and concluded that no L\'evy process could model recent observations with higher resolution. Here we show that this re-analysis suffers from a conceptual misunderstanding, and that the new albatross data remain consistent with a biological L\'evy flight.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  arXiv: Populations and Evolution

• Publication date

  2008-02-13

• Fields of study

  Biology, Physics

• Identifiers
  arXiv 0802.1762
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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