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ArticleRoyal Society open science2024

Solitary humpback whales manufacture bubble-nets as tools to increase prey intake.

A Szabo, L Bejder, H Warick, M van Aswegen, A S Friedlaender, J Goldbogen, J M Kendall-Bar, E M Leunissen, M Angot, W T Gough

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

A SzaboAlaska Whale Foundation, Petersburg, PO Box 1927, AK, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2452-1591
L BejderMarine Mammal Research Program, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-8606
H WarickMarine Mammal Research Program, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA.
M van AswegenMarine Mammal Research Program, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA.
A S FriedlaenderUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, CA 94720, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-233X
J GoldbogenHopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 94305, USA.
J M Kendall-BarScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
E M LeunissenDepartment of Marine Science, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
M AngotAlaska Whale Foundation, Petersburg, PO Box 1927, AK, USA.
W T GoughMarine Mammal Research Program, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2701-5299

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several animal species use tools for foraging; however, very few manufacture and/or modify those tools. Humpback whales, which manufacture bubble-net tools while foraging, are among these rare species. Using animal-borne tag and unoccupied aerial system technologies, we examine bubble-nets manufactured by solitary humpback whales (

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dronesenergy expenditureforaging behaviourprey manipulationtool-useunoccupied aerial systems

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PMCPMC11336686

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