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- Title
Escort service: Sex and relatedness of humpback whales accompanying mother‐calf pairs off Western Australia.
- Authors
Seeary, Lucy‐Rose; Attard, Catherine R. M.; Totterdell, John; Pitman, Robert L.; Möller, Luciana M.
- Abstract
Biggs killer whale (Orcinus orca) predation on subadult humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in lower Cook Inlet and Kodiak, Alaska. Associations with multiple male groups increase the energy expenditure of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) female and calf pairs on the breeding grounds. Escort service: Sex and relatedness of humpback whales accompanying mother-calf pairs off Western Australia Humpback whale "super-groups" - A novel low-latitude feeding behaviour of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Benguela Upwelling System.
- Subjects
WESTERN Australia; HUMPBACK whale; CALVES; HUMPBACK whale behavior; KILLER whale; BALEEN whales; SPERM whale; ANIMAL behavior
- Publication
Marine Mammal Science, 2022, Vol 38, Issue 4, p1682
- ISSN
0824-0469
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mms.12952