Metabolic Expenditures of Lunge Feeding Rorquals Across Scale: Implications for the Evolution of Filter Feeding and the Limits to Maximum Body Size
Bulk-filter feeding is an energetically efficient strategy for resource acquisition and assimilation, and facilitates the maintenance of extreme body size as exemplified by baleen whales (Mysticeti) and multiple lineages of bony and cartilaginous fishes. Among mysticetes, rorqual whales (Balaenopter...
Published in: | PLoS ONE |
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443106 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024769 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044854 |