Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales

2012/05/01 by Nicholas D. Pyenson, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, A. Wayne Vogl +3 · 6 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Neuroscience · #Anatomy #Balaenoptera #Biology #Bird flight #Bottlenose dolphin #Cetacea #Ecology #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Marine animal studies overview #Neuroscience #Paleontology #Predation #Sensory system #Sloth #Underwater Acoustics Research #Whale #Wing #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1038/nature11135

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• 100-Million-Year Dynasty of Giant Planktivorous Bony Fishes in the Mesozoic Seas
• Internal Mechanism of Rorqual Feeding
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• Passive versus active engulfment: verdict from trajectory simulations of lunge-feeding fin whales Balaenoptera physalus
• Electroreception in the Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis)
• Scaling of lunge‐feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass‐specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity
• ASYMMETRICAL PIGMENTATION IN THE FIN WHALE: A TEST OF TWO FEEDING RELATED HYPOTHESES
• The morphology and systematics of Mammalodon colliveri (Cetacea: Mysticeti), a toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia
• Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density

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• Blue whales ( Balaenoptera musculus ) optimize foraging efficiency by balancing oxygen use and energy gain as a function of prey density
• Underwater acrobatics by the world's largest predator: 360° rolling manoeuvres by lunge-feeding blue whales
• Baleen whale [wikipedia]
• Rorqual [wikipedia]