Fast and Furious: Energetic Tradeoffs and Scaling of High-Speed Foraging in Rorqual Whales.

• Main Authors: Gough, William, Cade, David, Czapanskiy, Max, Potvin, Jean, Fish, Frank, Kahane-Rapport, Shirel, Savoca, Matthew, Bierlich, K, Johnston, David, Friedlaender, Ari, Szabo, Andy, Bejder, Lars, Goldbogen, Jeremy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2022
• Subjects: Rorqual; baleen whales
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wb4879p

Although gigantic body size and obligate filter feeding mechanisms have evolved in multiple vertebrate lineages (mammals and fishes), intermittent ram (lunge) filter feeding is unique to a specific family of baleen whales: rorquals. Lunge feeding is a high cost, high benefit feeding mechanism that r...