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Figure 2. Examples of humpback whales interacting with mammal-eating killer whales attacking various prey species: (A) large type B killer whales attacking a crabeater seal hauled out on an ice floe with an agitated (bellowing) humpback in the foreground; January 2009, Western Antarctic Peninsula, A...

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Main Authors: Pitman, Robert L., Deecke, Volker B., Gabriele, Christine M., Srinivasan, Mridula, Black, Nancy, Denkinger, Judith, Durban, John W., Mathews, Elizabeth A., Matkin, Dena R., Neilson, Janet L., Schulman-Janiger, Alisa, Shearwater, Debra, Stap, Peggy, Ternullo, Richard
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2016
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Antarc*
Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
Crabeater Seal
glacier*
harbor seal
Humpback Whale
Killer Whale
Killer whale
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13159374
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13159374
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Summary:Figure 2. Examples of humpback whales interacting with mammal-eating killer whales attacking various prey species: (A) large type B killer whales attacking a crabeater seal hauled out on an ice floe with an agitated (bellowing) humpback in the foreground; January 2009, Western Antarctic Peninsula, Appendix S2 account #89; photo by J. Durban; (B) Bigg's killer whales attacking a gray whale calf (gray whale mother on left; wounded calf in center) with a humpback whale in the background; May 2012, Monterey Bay, CA, #55; photo E. Robinson courtesy Monterey Bay Whale Watch; (C) Bigg's killer whales attacking a Steller sea lion with humpback in the immediate background; 21 August 2010, Vancouver Island, Canada, #67; photo by R. Frank; (D) Bigg's killer whales attacking a harbor seal (below trailing edge of killer whale dorsal fin; the seal has a transmitter mounted on its head) and a humpback in the background; June 2005, Glacier Bay, AK, #91; photo by M. de Roos. ... : Published as part of Pitman, Robert L., Deecke, Volker B., Gabriele, Christine M., Srinivasan, Mridula, Black, Nancy, Denkinger, Judith, Durban, John W., Mathews, Elizabeth A., Matkin, Dena R., Neilson, Janet L., Schulman-Janiger, Alisa, Shearwater, Debra, Stap, Peggy & Ternullo, Richard, 2017, Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: Mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism?, pp. 7-58 in Marine Mammal Science 33 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.1111/mms.12343, http://zenodo.org/record/13159367 ...

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