Bowhead Whales Use Two Foraging Strategies in Response to Fine-scale Differences in Zooplankton Vertical Distribution
Researchers attached trackers to bowhead whales in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut (Canada), and used an optical plankton counter (OPC) and net collections to identify and enumerate copepod prey species through the water column. Eleven bowheads were equipped with Wildlife Computers SPLASH tags in Cumberland Sound between...