Feeding habits of Baird's beaked whale Berardius bairdii, in the western North Pacific and sea of Okhotsk off Japan

Fisheries Science

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-20

  Ohizumi, Hiroshi ^a   Isoda, Tatsuya ^b   Kishiro, Toshiya ^b   Kato, Hidehiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Berardius bairdii; Foraging on the bottom; Hakes; Rat tails; Southern Sea of Okhotsk; Squid; Western North Pacific; Ziphiid

Indexed keywords

BERARDIUS BAIRDII; CEPHALOPODA; CETACEA; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 0037325569     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1444-2906.2003.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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