Relatedly, a paper was posted to bioRxiv a few days ago describing the results of large scale fruit fly release-and-recapture experiments. They conclude the abstract with "Our field data do not support a Lévy flight model of dispersal, despite the fact that our experimental conditions almost perfectly match the core assumptions of that theory."
Also, Viswanathan's 1996 Nature paper was stupendously wrong due to the key measurements being in error, but instead of retracting it, he and colleagues published a followup - in Nature 2007 - in which they say the albatross flight times are gamma distributed.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.10.145169v1
Also, Viswanathan's 1996 Nature paper was stupendously wrong due to the key measurements being in error, but instead of retracting it, he and colleagues published a followup - in Nature 2007 - in which they say the albatross flight times are gamma distributed.