Underwater acrobatics by the world's largest predator: 360° rolling manoeuvres by lunge-feeding blue whales

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Goldbogen, Jeremy A ^a   Calambokidis, John ^a   Friedlaender, Ari S ^b,f   Francis, John ^c   DeRuiter, Stacy L ^d   Stimpert, Alison K ^e   Falcone, Erin ^a   Southall, Brandon L ^f  

^a CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c National Geographic   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^f USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Manoeuvrability; Mysticeti

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BODY SIZE; FEEDING MECHANISM; KINEMATICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WHALE; ZOOPLANKTON;

BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CETACEA; EUPHAUSIACEA; MYSTICETI;

ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BALAENOPTERA; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MAGNETOMETRY; ORIENTATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; TELEMETRY;

ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMALS; BALAENOPTERA; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MAGNETOMETRY; ORIENTATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84872006116     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0986     Document Type: Article

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