Diving behaviour of narwhals (Monodon monoceros) at two coastal localities in the Canadian high Arctic

• Main Authors: Kristin L. Laidre, Mads Peter Heide-jørgensen, Rune Dietz
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Nunavut; Somerset Island; Tremblay; Tremblay Sound; Baffin; Creswell Bay; Monodon monoceros; narwhal*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.529.5187; http://staff.washington.edu/klaidre/docs/Laidreetal_2002b.pdf

Abstract: In August 1999 and 2000, four suction-cup-attached time–depth recorders (TDRs) were deployed and re-trieved from narwhals (Monodon monoceros) in Tremblay Sound, Baffin Island, and Creswell Bay, Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada. The TDRs remained on the whales for between 12 and 33 h and co...