Sperm whale diving behavior monitored using a suction-cup-attached TDR tag

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 258, Issue , 2003, Pages 291-295

  Amano, Masao ^a   Yoshioka, Motoi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diving behavior; Foraging; Physeter macrocephalus; Sperm whale; Time depth recorder

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTATION; WHALE;

(NORTHWEST); HONSHU; JAPAN; KUMANO; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CETACEA; HYPEROODON AMPULLATUS; MACROCEPHALUS; MAMMALIA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETER MACROCEPHALUS; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 0141673447     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps258291     Document Type: Article

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