Dear All, We have recently published a new method to detect feeding events in pinnipeds using head-mounted accelerometers. For those of you interested, the title and abstract can be found below. J.Exp. Biol. http://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2014/04/01/jeb.100016.abstract What a jerk: prey engulfment revealed by high-rate, super-cranial accelerometry on a harbour seal (*Phoca vitulina*) K. Ydesen, D. Wisniewska, J. Hansen, K. Beedholm, M. Johnson and P.T. Madsen Abstract A key component in understanding the ecological role of marine mammal predators is to identify how, where and how much prey they capture in time and space. Satellite and archival tags on pinnipeds generally only provide diving and positioning information, and foraging is often inferred to take place in particular shaped dives or when the animal remains in an area for an extended interval. However, fast movements of the head and jaws may provide reliable feeding cues that can be detected by small low-power accelerometers mounted on the head. To test this notion, a harbour seal (*Phoca vitulina*) was trained to wear an OpenTag (sampling at 200 or 333 Hz with ±2 or ±16 g clipping) on its head while catching fish prey in front of four underwater digital high-speed video cameras. We show that both raptorial and suction feeding generate jerk (i.e., differential of acceleration) signatures with maximum peak values exceeding 1000 m/s3. We conclude that reliable prey capture cues can be derived from fast-sampling, head mounted accelerometer tags thus holding a promising potential for long-term studies of foraging ecology and field energetics of aquatic predators in their natural environments. Requests for pdfs can be made to kristinaydesen@gmail.com On behalf of the authors Kristina