Using dive behavior and active acoustics to assess prey use and partitioning by fin and humpback whales near Kodiak Island, Alaska

Witteveen, Briana; De Robertis, Alex; Guo, Lei; Wynne, Kate

doi:10.1111/mms.12158

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Using dive behavior and active acoustics to assess prey use and partitioning by fin and humpback whales near Kodiak Island, Alaska

Published in Marine Mammal Science • Sep 1, 2014

Authors:

Briana Witteveen

Alex De Robertis

Lei Guo

Abstract

Abstract Near the Kodiak Archipelago, fin ( Balaenoptera physalus ) and humpback ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) whales frequently overlap spatially and temporally. The Gulf Apex Predator‐prey study ( GAP ) investigated the prey use and potential prey partitioning between these sympatric species by combi...

Subject

Balaenoptera

Predation

Humpback whale

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