Keeping momentum with a mouthful of water: Behavior and kinematics of humpback whale lunge feeding

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 3786-3798

  Simon, Malene ^a,b   Johnson, Mark ^a,c   Madsen, Peter T T ^a,d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Baleen whale; Dive behavior; Gulp feeding; Megaptera novaeangliae; Prey capture

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; DIVING; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMPBACK WHALE; LOCOMOTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DIVING; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMPBACK WHALE; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; WATER;

EID: 84867515016     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.071092     Document Type: Article

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