Fast and Furious: Energetic Tradeoffs and Scaling of High-Speed Foraging in Rorqual Whales

• Published in: Integrative Organismal Biology
• Main Authors: Gough, William T, Cade, David E, Czapanskiy, Max F, Potvin, Jean, Fish, Frank E, Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R, Savoca, Matthew S, Bierlich, K C, Johnston, David W, Friedlaender, Ari S, Szabo, Andy, Bejder, Lars, Goldbogen, Jeremy A
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2022
• Subjects: Article; Rorqual; baleen whales
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9475666/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36127894; https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac038

Although gigantic body size and obligate filter feeding mechanisms have evolved in multiple vertebrate lineages (mammals and fishes), intermittent ram (lunge) filter feeding is unique to a specific family of baleen whales: rorquals. Lunge feeding is a high cost, high benefit feeding mechanism that r...