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Insight into the kinematics of blue whale surface foraging through drone observations and prey data.
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- Kinematics of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) foraging on infaunal ghost shrimp (Neotrypaea californiensis).The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Influence of Solvent Lipid Extraction on Tissue-Specific Carbon Isotopes.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Closing the air gap: the use of drones for studying wildlife ecophysiology.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Critically endangered Rice's whales (Balaenoptera ricei) selectively feed on high-quality prey in the Gulf of Mexico.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Environmental conditions and marine heatwaves influence blue whale foraging and reproductive effort.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Shaped by Their Environment: Variation in Blue Whale Morphology across Three Productive Coastal Ecosystems.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Field measurements reveal exposure risk to microplastic ingestion by filter-feeding megafauna.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Fast and Furious: Energetic Tradeoffs and Scaling of High-Speed Foraging in Rorqual Whales.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Population-level laterality in foraging finless porpoises.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Temporal and spatial lags between wind, coastal upwelling, and blue whale occurrence.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Marine soundscape variation reveals insights into baleen whales and their environment: a case study in central New Zealand.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
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- Rorqual Lunge-Feeding Energetics Near and Away from the Kinematic Threshold of Optimal Efficiency.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
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Abstract
To understand how predators optimize foraging strategies, extensive knowledge of predator behavior and prey distribution is needed. Blue whales employ an energetically demanding lunge feeding method that requires the whales to selectively feed where energetic gain exceeds energetic loss, while also balancing oxygen consumption, breath holding capacity, and surface recuperation time. Hence, blue whale foraging behavior is primarily driven by krill patch density and depth, but many studies have not fully considered surface feeding as a significant foraging strategy in energetic models. We collected predator and prey data on a blue whale (
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