Blackfish: Pilot and false killer whales
Evidence for a postreproductive phase in female false killer whales Pseudorca crassidens
... females, but the sample size was too small to show this convincingly. The statistical evidence for a prolonged PRLS in false killer whales is also compelling. We found that the PrR for the combined ...
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Evidence for a postreproductive phase in female false killer whales Pseudorca crassidens
... females, but the sample size was too small to show this convincingly. The statistical evidence for a prolonged PRLS in false killer whales is also compelling. We found that the PrR for the combined ...
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Pilot whales attracted to killer whales sounds : acoustically mediated interspecific interactions in cetaceans
... Indeed, pilot whales off Norway feed mostly on squid but do take also schooling fishes such as herring [22] which is the main diet of killer whales in this area ...towards killer ...
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Changes in dive behaviour during naval sonar exposure in killer whales, long finned pilot whales, and sperm whales
... not. Killer whales 144a and 144b did not resume deep foraging dives after the first LFAS exposure, and the observed lack of response to the sec- ond exposure may therefore be influenced by the animals ...
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Icelandic herring eating killer whales feed at night
... finned pilot whales, Baird et al. (2002) revealed diel variation of pilot whales foraging behaviour feeding on squid, but in contrast they observed very shal- low dives during the day but deep ...
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KILLER WHALE. Recovery Strategy for the Northern and Southern Resident Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) in Canada
... resident killer whales, their habitat and their ...resident killer whales (Ross ...transient killer whales, and relatively low levels were observed in northern resid ...resident ...
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Support for the beam focusing hypothesis in the false killer whale
... toothed whales, dolphins and porpoises, produce intense, directional, ultrasonic echolocation signals and use the information in the returning echoes to identify, localize and track ...
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Echolocation clicks of two free ranging, oceanic delphinids with different food preferences: false killer whales Pseudorca crassidens and Risso's dolphins Grampus griseus
... Key words: false killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens, Risso’s dolphin, Grampus griseus, biosonar, echolocation, target detection, sound production, source level, click.. Summary.[r] ...
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A false killer whale adjusts its hearing when it echolocates
... with whales and dolphins, if one can measure hearing during echolocation, one of the first questions to be asked about the effects of short, loud echolocation sounds on a whale is: does a whale hear outgoing ...
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Variation in the diet of killer whales Orcinus orca at Marion Island, Southern Ocean.
... Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are apex predators with a broad diet including over 140 prey species, ranging in size from herring (Clupea harengus) to baleen whales (Ford ...2009). Killer whale ...
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False killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) in New Zealand waters : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Conservation Biology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
... Thank you to everyone who contributed sighting reports, photographs and a wealth of information on false killer whales in their areas. In the Bay of Islands; Fullers Great Sights for allowing access ...
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Reproductive Conflict and the Evolution of Menopause in Killer Whales
... resident killer whales has shown that post-reproductive females increase the survival of their adult offspring, particularly their adult sons [23], by transferring knowledge of when and where to find salmon ...
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The Concept of Species with Constant Reference to Killer Whales
... -Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species. Abstract: Watson recognized 182 species, Babington 251, and Bentham only 112. Over 150 years since Darwin’s time, scientists continue to debate what constitutes a species. But ...
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Wolves of the sea : a T V representation of killer whales
... vision is now subjected to a shimmering school of herring. Killer whales move through and under the fish.. A cello can be heard. In a series of short, deeply reverberating notes that a[r] ...
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Physical constraints of cultural evolution of dialects in killer whales
... and upper components of stereotyped two-voiced calls in killer whales are produced with 310.. (2007) demonstrated the differences in the relative intensity of harmonics between male 31[r] ...
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Killer whales (Orcinus orca) produce ultrasonic whistles
... that killer whales, the largest dolphin, pro- duce whistles with the highest fundamental frequencies ever reported in a ...in killer whales, and highlight the importance of appropriate ...
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Blackfish Script
... Maybe some of us just our naivete or whatever, you know, because we weren't given the full details of Keltie’s situation. BERG: I was under the impression that Tilikum had nothing to do with her death specifically that ...
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Molecular Characterization of a Novel Gammaretrovirus in Killer Whales (Orcinus orca)
... adult killer whales and detected a novel gammaretrovirus by degenerate ...captive killer whales and tissues from 3 free-ranging animals detected the proviral DNA in all tissues examined from ...
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Respiration timing and underwater activity in killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... 3.4.1.3. The O 2 model including an optimized O 2 uptake curve By optimizing the O 2 uptake curve applied to the model the correlation between estimated E O2 and V O2 over 15 min intervals improved for two of the six ...
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Stable isotopes of captive cetaceans (killer whales and bottlenose dolphins)
... It was very difficult to change the diet of these captive cetaceans, in particular because they participated in shows every day. When the diet was not appropriate, they did not work and/or they could become aggressive ...
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