Metabolic Expenditures of Lunge Feeding Rorquals Across Scale: Implications for the Evolution of Filter Feeding and the Limits to Maximum Body Size

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Potvin, Jean, Goldbogen, Jeremy A., Shadwick, Robert E.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2012
• Subjects: Research Article; Rorqual; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; Balaenoptera musculus; Balaenoptera physalus; baleen whales; toothed whales
• 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

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...