Space Partitioning Without Territoriality in Gannets

<jats:title>This Is the Place</jats:title> <jats:p> Bats, bees, seals, and many seabirds practice central-place foraging, leaving a central home site, such as a hive or a rookery, to forage in a specific territory. Such species also share the challenge of competing for local resources with individuals from separate colonies. Using satellite tags, <jats:bold> Wakefield <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6141" page="68" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="341" xlink:href="10.1126/science.1236077">68</jats:related-article> , published online 6 June; see the Perspective by <jats:bold> <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6141" page="35" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="341" xlink:href="10.1126/science.1240316">Weimerskirch</jats:related-article> </jats:bold> ) followed over 180 northern gannets to determine potential drivers of foraging territory division. Boundaries among colonial territories arose as a result of competition with individuals from other territories. Individuals from the same colony appeared to share information about foraging sites, presumably contributing to the establishment and maintenance of specific, long-term colonial territories. </jats:p>