ArticleNature ecology & evolution2023
Minke whale feeding rate limitations suggest constraints on the minimum body size for engulfment filtration feeding.
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- Sprint-like cardiac dynamics support repeated acrobatic lunges in foraging rorqual whales.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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Abstract
Bulk filter feeding has enabled gigantism throughout evolutionary history. The largest animals, extant rorqual whales, utilize intermittent engulfment filtration feeding (lunge feeding), which increases in efficiency with body size, enabling their gigantism. The smallest extant rorquals (7-10 m minke whales), however, still exhibit short-term foraging efficiencies several times greater than smaller non-filter-feeding cetaceans, raising the question of why smaller animals do not utilize this foraging modality. We collected 437 h of bio-logging data from 23 Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) to test the relationship of feeding rates (λ
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