WHALES ORCINUS-ORCA
The significance of respiration timing in the energetics estimates of free ranging killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... killer whales, Orcinus orca (Linnaeus 1758). Killer whales are ‘ single-breathers ’ that tend to continually dive between respirations, making it possible to detect respirations using depth ...
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Evidence for vocal learning in juvenile male killer whales, Orcinus orca, from an adventitious cross socializing experiment
... Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are thought to learn their vocal ...killer whales and three males (two juveniles and an adult) during two periods, 2001–2003 and ...killer whales are ...
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Geographic variation in the time-frequency characteristics of high-frequency whistles produced by killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... stereotyped whistles in resident killer whales, Orcinus orca , off British Columbia. Whistle sequences in wild killer 636[r] ...
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The significance of respiration timing in the energetics estimates of free ranging killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... killer whales, Orcinus orca (Linnaeus 1758). Killer whales are ‘ single-breathers ’ that tend to continually dive between respirations, making it possible to detect respirations using depth ...
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Persistence of skin marks on killer whales (Orcinus orca) caused by the parasitic sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in Iceland
... minke whales, sea lamprey attachments cause bloody lesions, suggesting the lampreys could be feeding on blood in the vascular networks of the skin (Nichols and Tscherter ...killer whales (Orcinus ...
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Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Iceland show weak genetic structure among diverse isotopic signatures and observed movement patterns
... killer whales (Orcinus orca) of the same population have uniform specialized diets that are non‐overlapping with other sympatric, genetically divergent, and socially isolated killer whale ...killer ...
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Vocal behaviour and feeding ecology of killer whales Orcinus orca around Shetland, UK
... Killer whales Orcinus orca are sighted regularly off Shetland, UK, but little is known about their numbers, diet and population ...killer whales around Shetland in order to investigate ...
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Killer whales (Orcinus orca) feeding on schooling herring (Clupea harengus) using underwater tail slaps: kinematic analyses of field observations
... killer whales’ (Orcinus orca) slaps, were collected during the recording sessions and ...killer whales, of which 167 min (seven recording sessions) are of feeding behaviour, ...Killer ...
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Movements and site fidelity of killer whales (Orcinus orca) relative to seasonal and long-term shifts in herring (Clupea harengus) distribution
... Samarra, Filipa I.P., Tavares, Sara B., Béesau, Julie, Deecke, Volker B., Fennell, Alexandra, Miller, Patrick J.O., Pétursson, Hlynur, Sigurjónsson, Johann and Víkingsson, Gisli A. (2017) Movements and site fidelity of ...
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The diving behaviour of mammal-eating killer whales (Orcinus orca): variations with ecological not physiological factors
... mammal-eating killer whales, we compared diving behaviour between daytime and nighttime 175. for tagged individuals.[r] ...
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Movements and site fidelity of killer whales (Orcinus orca) relative to seasonal and long term shifts in herring (Clupea harengus) distribution
... overwintering grounds in the West of Iceland, including the fjords Grundarfjörđur and Kolgrafafjörđur and; B) herring spawning grounds off Vestmannaeyjar, in the South of Iceland. The locations of killer whale ...
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Fine-scale foraging movements by fish-eating killer whales (Orcinus orca) relate to the vertical distributions and escape responses of salmonid prey (Oncorhynchus spp.)
... by whales searching for ...killer whales can probably detect fish at depth during surface transits and initiate a foraging dive in response, as they are capable of sensing Chinook salmon at distances of up ...
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Acoustic characteristics of underwater tail slaps used by Norwegian and Icelandic killer whales (Orcinus orca) to debilitate herring (Clupea harengus)
... killer whales had surrounded the herring or ended before the feeding ceased due to the boat drifting away from the whales or to changes in weather and light ...killer whales and a herring school of ...
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Whistle communication in mammal-eating killer whales (Orcinus orca): further evidence for acoustic divergence between ecotypes
... within the northern resident home range and the SW1-like whistle within the southern 406.. resident home range), but killer whale whistles are relatively faint signals that have a 407.[r] ...
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Molecular Characterization of a Novel Gammaretrovirus in Killer Whales (Orcinus orca)
... killer whales exists in multiple odonto- cete species ...killer whales and likely other delphinids based upon the ubiquitous presence of the provirus among individuals of the species, consistent copy ...
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Respiration timing and underwater activity in killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... killer whales can reach swimming velocities up to about 8 m·s -1 during pursuit of either other marine mammals (Fish, 1998; Ford et ...killer whales normally show a general diving pattern characterised by a ...
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Killer whales (Orcinus orca) produce ultrasonic whistles
... Killer whales are the largest delphinid and therefore particularly relevant to investigate the relationship between body size and whistle frequency. Although the harmonics of killer whale calls and whistles can ...
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Functional design and use of acoustic signals produced by killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... killer whales, but this study suggests that the foraging strategies used when killer whales are feeding upon spawning herring may be an important factor in how they produce communication ...killer ...
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Low-frequency signals produced by Northeast Atlantic killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... in Iceland and Norway when killer whales were observed feeding on herring, and no 26.. other marine mammal species were nearby.[r] ...
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Low-frequency signals produced by Northeast Atlantic killer whales (Orcinus orca)
... humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Alaska produce feeding calls that have not been recorded from feeding humpbacks elsewhere (Jurasz and Jurasz, 1979; D’Vincent et ...killer whales in Iceland and ...
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