Underwater components of humpback whale bubble-net feeding behaviour

Behaviour

Volumn 148, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 575-602

  Wiley, David ^a   Ware, Colin ^b   Bocconcelli, Alessandro ^c   Cholewiak, Danielle ^a   Friedlaender, Ari ^d   Thompson, Michael ^a   Weinrich, Mason ^e  

^a NOAA National Ocean Service   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Whale Center of New England   (United States)

Author keywords

bubble net; double loop; feeding; humpback whale; kinematic; spiral loop

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 79959422012     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579511X570893     Document Type: Article

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