Evidence of killer whale predation on a yearling bowhead whale in Cumberland Sound, Nunavut

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Brent G. Young, Sarah M.E. Fortune, William R. Koski, Stephen A. Raverty, Ricky Kilabuk, Steven H. Ferguson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2020
• Subjects: balaena mysticetus; orcinus orca; predation; arctic; nunavut; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Environmental engineering; TA170-171; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Greenland; Cumberland Sound; Balaena mysticetus; bowhead whale; inuit; Killer Whale; Orca; Orcinus orca; Sea ice; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2019-0014; https://doaj.org/article/ac202734220d4bd7ad82668ae67097c5

Accounts of killer whale (Orcinus orca) predation on marine mammals in the Canadian Arctic are relatively uncommon. Although second-hand reports of killer whale predation events in the Arctic are more common in recent years, these observations are generally poorly documented and the outcome of attac...