Diet of northern bottlenose whales inferred from fatty-acid and stable-isotope analyses of biopsy samples

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Hooker, Sascha K, Iverson, Sara J, Ostrom, Peggy, Smith, Sean C
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2001
• Subjects: hyperoodon ampullatus; North Atlantic; Norwegian Sea
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z01-096; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z01-096

The Gully submarine canyon off eastern Canada has been designated a pilot marine protected area largely because of the northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) found there. Studies of this species' diet elsewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean have suggested specialization on the deep-se...