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- Title
Account of a Solitary Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Bubble-Net Feeding in the Moray Firth, Northeast Scotland.
- Authors
Marwood, Eleanor M.; Dolan, Ciarán J.; Dolan, Tom J.; Robinson, Kevin P.
- Abstract
The article focuses on Humpback whales like other rorquals, possess ventral pleats that allow them to engulf large volumes of water, dense with prey through an efficient lunging action. Topics include examines this feeding method is implemented by humpback whales in various ways by different populations that show behavioral plasticity between geographical locations.
- Subjects
HUMPBACK whale; ESTUARIES; BALEEN whales; PREY availability; ANIMAL feeds; AQUATIC mammals; MARINE mammal populations
- Publication
Aquatic Mammals, 2022, Vol 48, Issue 6, p553
- ISSN
0167-5427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1578/AM.48.6.2022.553