Visual predation during springtime foraging of the North Atlantic right whale ( Eubalaena glacialis )

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Fasick, Jeffry I., Baumgartner, Mark F., Cronin, Thomas W., Nickle, Benjamin, Kezmoh, Lorren J.
• Other Authors: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Institutes of Health
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Wilkinson; Calanus finmarchicus; Eubalaena glacialis; North Atlantic; North Atlantic right whale
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mms.12417; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fmms.12417; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mms.12417; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/mms.12417; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1111/mms.12417

Abstract To assess the role that vision plays in the ability of the North Atlantic right whale ( Eubalaena glacialis ) to detect its primary prey species, the calanoid copepod Calanus finmarchicus , we have compared the absorbance spectrum of the E. glacialis rod visual pigment, the transmittance sp...