Deep-diving behaviour of the northern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus (Cetacea: Ziphiidae)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1420, 1999, Pages 671-676

  Hooker, Sascha K ^a   Baird, Robin W ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Pacific Whale Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Diving; Foraging; Hyperoodon ampullatus; Northern bottlenose whale; Time depth recorder; Ziphiidae

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DIVING; WHALE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; DIVING; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; HYPEROODON AMPULLATUS; MAMMALIA; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 0033531755     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0688     Document Type: Article

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