About the Authors

Joseph I. Hoffman

joseph.hoffman@uni-bielefeld.de

Affiliation Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Michael A. S. Thorne

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rob McEwing

Affiliation Wildgenes Laboratory, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jaume Forcada

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rob Ogden

Affiliation Wildgenes Laboratory, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JIH RO. Performed the experiments: JIH MAST RM JF RO. Analyzed the data: JIH MAST RO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JIH RO. Wrote the paper: JIH MAST RO.