Sexual differences in the foraging ecology of 19th century beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) from the Canadian High Arctic

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Szpak, Paul, Julien, Marie‐Hélène, Royle, Thomas C. A., Savelle, James M., Yang, Dongya Y., Richards, Michael P.
• Other Authors: Canada Foundation for Innovation, Canada Research Chairs, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Arctic cod; Beluga; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mms.12655; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mms.12655; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/mms.12655

Abstract Marine mammals often exhibit significant sexual segregation in their diet and habitat use but these differences have not been studied systematically in historic or ancient populations due to the difficulties associated with determining the sex of skeletal elements based on gross morphology....