Eastern temperate North Pacific offshore killer whales (Orcinus orca): Occurrence, movements, and insights into feeding ecology

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 719-729

  Dahlheim, Marilyn E ^a   Schulman Janiger, Alisa ^b   Black, Nancy ^c   Ternullo, Richard ^c   Ellifrit, Dave ^d   Balcomb III, Kenneth C ^d  

^a National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^b Monterey Bay Cetacean Project ^*  (United States)

^c Monterey Bay Cetacean Project   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MOVEMENT; PREY AVAILABILITY; RECOGNITION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WHALE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 47649097691     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00206.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Bain, D. E. 1995. The use of sound to guide killer whales (Orcinus orca) entrapped in Barnes Lake, Alaska, to open water. Abstract presented at the Eleventh Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 14-18 December 1995 Orlando, FL. p. 6.
2. Baird, R. W., and P. J. Stacey. 1988. Variation in saddle patch pigmentation in populations of killer whales (Orcinus orca) from British Columbia, Alaska, and Washington State. Canadian Journal of Zoology 66 : 2582 2585.
3. Black, N. A., A. Schulman-Janiger, R. L. Ternullo and M. Guerrero-Ruiz. 1997. Killer whales of California and western Mexico: A catalogue of photo-identified Individuals. U. S. Department of Commerce. NOAA Technical Memorandum SWFSC 247. 174 pp.
4. Caldwell, D. K, and D. H. Brown. 1964. Tooth wear as a correlate of described feeding behavior by the killer whale, with notes on a captive specimen. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 63 : 128 140.
5. Cameron, W. M. 1941. Killer whales stranded near Masset. Progress report of the Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, B. C. and Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Prince Rupert, British Columbia 49 : 17.
6. Carl, G. C. 1946. A school of killer whales stranded at Estevan Point, Vancouver Island. Report for the Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology 1945 : B21 B28.
7. Dahlheim, M. E., and J. E. Heyning. 1999. Killer whale Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758). Pages 281 322 in S. H. Ridgway and R. Harrison, eds. Handbook of marine mammals, Volume 6. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
8. Dahlheim, M. E., D. K. Ellifrit and J. D. Swenson. 1997. Killer whales of southeast Alaska: A catalogue of photo-identified individuals. Day Moon Press, Seattle, WA.
9. Ford, J. K. B., G. M. Ellis and L. M. Nichol. 1992. Killer whales of the Queen Charlotte Islands: A preliminary study of the abundance, distribution, and population identity of Orcinus orca in the waters of Haida Gwaii. Prepared for South Moresby/Gwaii Haana National Park Reserve, Canadian Park Service, Queen Charlotte City, British Columbia, Canada. 69 pp.
10. Ford, J. K. B., G. M Ellis and K. C. Balcomb. 2000. Killer whales: The natural history and genealogy of Orcinus orca in British Columbia and Washington. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC and University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA.
11. Goley, P. D., and J. M. Straley. 1994. Attack on gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) in Monterey Bay, California, by killer whales (Orcinus orca) previously identified in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Zoology 72 : 1528 1530.
12. Guerrero-Ruiz, M., I. Garcia-Godos and J. Urban R. 2005. Photographic match of a killer whale (Orcinus orca) between Peruvian and Mexican waters. Aquatic Mammals 31 : 438 441.
13. Guerrero-Ruiz, M., H. Perez-Cortes, M. Salinas and J. Urban. 2006. First mass stranding of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Aquatic Mammals 32 : 265 272.
14. Heise, K., L. Barrett-Lennard, J. K. B. Ford and G. Ellis. 1993. Killer whales of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Prepared for the South Moresby/Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, Canadian Park Service, Queen Charlotte City, British Columbia. 36 pp.
15. Heise, K., L. Barrett-Lennard, E. Saulitis, C. Matkin and D. Bain. 2003. Examining the evidence for killer whale predation on Stellar sea lions in British Columbia and Alaska. Aquatic Mammals 29 : 325 334.
16. Hoelzel, A. R., M. E. Dahlheim and S. J. Stern. 1998. Low genetic variation among killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the eastern North Pacific, and genetic differentiation between foraging specialists. Journal of Heredity 89 : 121 128.
17. Hoelzel, A. R., A. Natoli, M. E. Dahlheim, C. Olavarria, R. W. Baird and N. A. Black. 2002. Low worldwide genetic diversity in the killer whale (Orcinus orca): Implications for demographic history. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 269 : 1467 1473.
18. Jones, I. M. 2006. A Northeast Pacific offshore killer whale (Orcinus orca) feeding on a Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis). Marine Mammal Science 22 : 198 200.
19. Krahn, M. M., D. P. Herman, C. O. Matkin, J. W. Durban, L. Barrett-Lennard, D. G. Burrows, M. E. Dahlheim, N. Black, R. G. LeDuc and P. R. Wade. 2007. Use of chemical tracers in assessing the diet and foraging regions of eastern North Pacific killer whales. Marine Environmental Research 63 : 91 114.
20. Morin, P. A., R. G. LeDuc, K. M. Robertson, N. M. Hedrick, W. F. Perrin, M. Etnier, P. Wade and B. L. Taylor. 2006. Genetic analysis of killer whale (Orcinus orca) historical bone and tooth samples to identify western U.S. ecotypes. Marine Mammal Science 22 : 897 909.
21. Walters, E. L., R. W. Baird and T. J. Guenther. 1992. New killer whale "pod" discovered near Victoria. Victoria Naturalist. 49 : 7.