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- Title
DOCUMENTATION OF SEA OTTERS AND BIRDS AS PREY FOR KILLER WHALES.
- Authors
Vos, Daniel J.; Quakenbush, Lori T.; Mahoney, Barbara A.
- Abstract
The article examines the stomach contents collected from a dead adult male killer whale that was found on April 19, 2003 in southwest Prince William Sound in Alaska. Genetic analysis conformed that this was a killer whale from the AT1 population. The whale was moderately decomposed and the cause of death could not be determined. Results of the analysis on the rinsed contents of the stomach indicate that this killer whale fed on sea otters and birds. The minimum number of animals determined from prey items found from in stomach contents included nine harbor seals, five sea otters, one river otter, one cormorant, one sea duck and one octopus.
- Subjects
PRINCE William Sound (Alaska); ALASKA; KILLER whale; ANIMAL feeding behavior; OTTERS; SEA birds; PREDATION; FOOD habits; CETACEA; MARINE mammals
- Publication
Marine Mammal Science, 2006, Vol 22, Issue 1, p201
- ISSN
0824-0469
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1748-7692.2006.00014.x