Cheetahs of the deep sea: Deep foraging sprints in short-finned pilot whales off Tenerife (Canary Islands)

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 936-947

  Aguilar Soto, Natacha ^a   Johnson, Mark P ^b   Madsen, Peter T ^b,c   Díaz, Francisca ^a   Domínguez, Iván ^a   Brito, Alberto ^a   Tyack, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Deep water ecosystem; Foraging ecology; Marine mammal; Pilot whale; Swimming speed

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEEP SEA; DIVING; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREY CAPTURE; SWIMMING; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT WHALE; SPAIN; SWIMMING; TELEMETRY; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; SPAIN; SWIMMING; TELEMETRY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES, PILOT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

ACINONYX JUBATUS; CEPHALOPODA; DELPHINIDAE; GLOBICEPHALA MACRORHYNCHUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 49649111360     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01393.x     Document Type: Article

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