Big gulps require high drag for fin whale lunge feeding

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 349, Issue , 2007, Pages 289-301

  Goldbogen, Jeremy A ^a   Pyenson, Nicholas D ^b   Shadwick, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balaenoptera physalus; Drag; Fin whale; Foraging; Locomotion; Lunge feeding

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DRAG; FEEDING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MODELING; PREY PREFERENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; BALAENOPTERIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 36949030032     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07066     Document Type: Article

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