Revisiting taxonomy of cephalopod prey of sperm whales caught commercially in subtropical and Southern Ocean waters

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Author: Cherel, Yves
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: Antarctica; Cetacean; Histioteuthidae; Odontocete; Squid; Trophic relationships; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Macleod; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni; Sperm whale; toothed whale
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03179766; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103490

International audience The sperm whale is the largest toothed whale that feeds almost exclusively on oceanic cephalopods. Since it wasactively hunted commercially, considerably more is known about its food than for many other large marine apexpredators. However, the use of those unique dietary infor...