Straight as an arrow: Humpback whales swim constant course tracks during long-distance migration

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 674-679

  Horton, Travis W ^a   Holdaway, Richard N ^a,b,c   Zerbini, Alexandre N ^d,e,f   Hauser, Nan ^g   Garrigue, Claire ^g,h   Andriolo, Artur ^e,i   Clapham, Phillip J ^d  

^a Geological Sciences   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c PALAECOL RESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^d NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^e Instituto Aqualie   (Brazil)

^f CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

^g SOUTH PACIFIC WHALE RESEARCH CONSORTIUM   (Cook Islands)

^h Operation Cetaces   (New Caledonia)

ⁱ FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Constant course; Humpback whales; Migration; Navigation; Sea surface currents

Indexed keywords

MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; NAVIGATION; OPEN OCEAN; PRECISION; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

CETACEA; MEGAPTERA;

EID: 80053928785     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0279     Document Type: Article

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