Blowing bubbles: An aquatic adaptation that risks protection of the respiratory tract in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 569-580

  Reidenberg, Joy S ^a   Laitman, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air release; Anatomy; Bubble; Cetacean; Cloud; Feeding; Humpback; Larynx; Mysticete; Net; Respiratory; Whale

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; DISSECTION; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; LARYNX; MALE; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; MOUTH; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RISK FACTOR; SOFT PALATE; WHALE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AIR; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMPBACK WHALE; LARYNX; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY;

CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; ODONTOCETI;

EID: 34250622527     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20537     Document Type: Article

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