The ultimate mouthful: Lunge feeding in rorqual whales

American Scientist

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-131

  Goldbogen, Jeremy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; COASTAL ZONE; DIVING; FEEDING; PREY CAPTURE; SKULL; WHALE;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA CRUZ [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

BALAENOPTERIDAE; CETACEA;

EID: 77949983373     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/2010.83.124     Document Type: Article

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