Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations
Despite their enormous size, whales make their living as voracious predators. To catch their much smaller, more maneuverable prey, they have developed several unique locomotor strategies that require high energetic input, high mechanical power output and a surprising degree of agility. To better und...
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ftunivalaska:oai:scholarworks.alaska.edu:11122/12714 2023-05-15T15:37:00+02:00 Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations Segre, Paolo S. Gough, William T. Roualdes, Edward A. Cade, David E. Czapanskiy, Max F. Fahlbusch, James Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R. Oestreich, William K. Bejder, Lars Bierlich, K.C. Burrows, Julia A. Calambokidis, John Chenoweth, Ellen M. Clemente, Jacopo di Durban, John W. Fearnbach, Holly Fish, Frank E. Friedlaender, Ari S. Hegelund, Peter Johnston, David W. Nowacek, Douglas P. Oudejans, Machiel G. Penry, Gwenith S. Potvin, Jean Simon, Malene Stanworth, Andrew Straley, Janice M. Szabo, Andrew Videsen, Simone K. A. Visser, Fleur Weir, Caroline R. Wiley, David N. Goldbogen, Jeremy A. 2022-03 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12714 en_US eng Journal of Experimental Biology Segre, P. S., Gough, W. T., Roualdes, E. A., Cade, D. E., Czapanskiy, M. F., Fahlbusch, J., Kahane-Rapport, S. R., Oestreich, W. K., Bejder, L., Bierlich, K. C., Burrows, J. A., Calambokidis, J., Chenoweth, E. M., di Clemente, J., Durban, J. W., Fearnbach, H., Fish, F. E., Friedlaender, A. S., Hegelund, P., … Goldbogen, J. A. (2022). Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: Larger whales outperform expectations. Journal of Experimental Biology, 225(5). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243224 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12714 Journal of Experimental Biology Maneuverability Agility Scaling Cetacean Swimming Article 2022 ftunivalaska https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243224 2023-02-23T21:37:58Z Despite their enormous size, whales make their living as voracious predators. To catch their much smaller, more maneuverable prey, they have developed several unique locomotor strategies that require high energetic input, high mechanical power output and a surprising degree of agility. To better understand how body size affects maneuverability at the largest scale, we used bio-logging data, aerial photogrammetry and a high-throughput approach to quantify the maneuvering performance of seven species of free-swimming baleen whale. We found that as body size increases, absolute maneuvering performance decreases: larger whales use lower accelerations and perform slower pitch-changes, rolls and turns than smaller species. We also found that baleen whales exhibit positive allometry of maneuvering performance: relative to their body size, larger whales use higher accelerations, and perform faster pitch-changes, rolls and certain types of turns than smaller species. However, not all maneuvers were impacted by body size in the same way, and we found that larger whales behaviorally adjust for their decreased agility by using turns that they can perform more effectively. The positive allometry of maneuvering performance suggests that large whales have compensated for their increased body size by evolving more effective control surfaces and by preferentially selecting maneuvers that play to their strengths. We thank the crews of many research vessels including the R/V John Martin, R/V Fluke, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, R/V Sanna, M/V Antonie, M/V Northern Song, the Cascadia Research Collective and the Shallow Marine Surveys Group; in particular, we thank John Douglas, Andrew Bell, Shaun Tomlinson, Steve Cartwright, Tony D'Aoust, Dennis Rogers, Kelly Newton, Heather Riley, Gina Rousa and Mark Rousa. We also thank Brandon L. Southall, Alison K. Stimpert and Stacy L. DeRuiter for their role in collecting data as part of the SOCAL-BRS project. We thank Matt S. Savoca, Julian Dale and Danuta M. Wisniewska for assistance with data ... Article in Journal/Newspaper baleen whale baleen whales University of Alaska: ScholarWorks@UA Riley ENVELOPE(-147.617,-147.617,-86.183,-86.183) Sanna ENVELOPE(12.047,12.047,66.506,66.506) Stacy ENVELOPE(-60.633,-60.633,-62.983,-62.983) Tomlinson ENVELOPE(51.183,51.183,-67.250,-67.250) Journal of Experimental Biology 225 5 |
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Maneuverability Agility Scaling Cetacean Swimming Segre, Paolo S. Gough, William T. Roualdes, Edward A. Cade, David E. Czapanskiy, Max F. Fahlbusch, James Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R. Oestreich, William K. Bejder, Lars Bierlich, K.C. Burrows, Julia A. Calambokidis, John Chenoweth, Ellen M. Clemente, Jacopo di Durban, John W. Fearnbach, Holly Fish, Frank E. Friedlaender, Ari S. Hegelund, Peter Johnston, David W. Nowacek, Douglas P. Oudejans, Machiel G. Penry, Gwenith S. Potvin, Jean Simon, Malene Stanworth, Andrew Straley, Janice M. Szabo, Andrew Videsen, Simone K. A. Visser, Fleur Weir, Caroline R. Wiley, David N. Goldbogen, Jeremy A. Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations |
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Despite their enormous size, whales make their living as voracious predators. To catch their much smaller, more maneuverable prey, they have developed several unique locomotor strategies that require high energetic input, high mechanical power output and a surprising degree of agility. To better understand how body size affects maneuverability at the largest scale, we used bio-logging data, aerial photogrammetry and a high-throughput approach to quantify the maneuvering performance of seven species of free-swimming baleen whale. We found that as body size increases, absolute maneuvering performance decreases: larger whales use lower accelerations and perform slower pitch-changes, rolls and turns than smaller species. We also found that baleen whales exhibit positive allometry of maneuvering performance: relative to their body size, larger whales use higher accelerations, and perform faster pitch-changes, rolls and certain types of turns than smaller species. However, not all maneuvers were impacted by body size in the same way, and we found that larger whales behaviorally adjust for their decreased agility by using turns that they can perform more effectively. The positive allometry of maneuvering performance suggests that large whales have compensated for their increased body size by evolving more effective control surfaces and by preferentially selecting maneuvers that play to their strengths. We thank the crews of many research vessels including the R/V John Martin, R/V Fluke, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, R/V Sanna, M/V Antonie, M/V Northern Song, the Cascadia Research Collective and the Shallow Marine Surveys Group; in particular, we thank John Douglas, Andrew Bell, Shaun Tomlinson, Steve Cartwright, Tony D'Aoust, Dennis Rogers, Kelly Newton, Heather Riley, Gina Rousa and Mark Rousa. We also thank Brandon L. Southall, Alison K. Stimpert and Stacy L. DeRuiter for their role in collecting data as part of the SOCAL-BRS project. We thank Matt S. Savoca, Julian Dale and Danuta M. Wisniewska for assistance with data ... |
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Segre, Paolo S. Gough, William T. Roualdes, Edward A. Cade, David E. Czapanskiy, Max F. Fahlbusch, James Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R. Oestreich, William K. Bejder, Lars Bierlich, K.C. Burrows, Julia A. Calambokidis, John Chenoweth, Ellen M. Clemente, Jacopo di Durban, John W. Fearnbach, Holly Fish, Frank E. Friedlaender, Ari S. Hegelund, Peter Johnston, David W. Nowacek, Douglas P. Oudejans, Machiel G. Penry, Gwenith S. Potvin, Jean Simon, Malene Stanworth, Andrew Straley, Janice M. Szabo, Andrew Videsen, Simone K. A. Visser, Fleur Weir, Caroline R. Wiley, David N. Goldbogen, Jeremy A. |
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Segre, Paolo S. Gough, William T. Roualdes, Edward A. Cade, David E. Czapanskiy, Max F. Fahlbusch, James Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R. Oestreich, William K. Bejder, Lars Bierlich, K.C. Burrows, Julia A. Calambokidis, John Chenoweth, Ellen M. Clemente, Jacopo di Durban, John W. Fearnbach, Holly Fish, Frank E. Friedlaender, Ari S. Hegelund, Peter Johnston, David W. Nowacek, Douglas P. Oudejans, Machiel G. Penry, Gwenith S. Potvin, Jean Simon, Malene Stanworth, Andrew Straley, Janice M. Szabo, Andrew Videsen, Simone K. A. Visser, Fleur Weir, Caroline R. Wiley, David N. Goldbogen, Jeremy A. |
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Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations |
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Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations |
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Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations |
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Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations |
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Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations |
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scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations |
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Journal of Experimental Biology |
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Segre, P. S., Gough, W. T., Roualdes, E. A., Cade, D. E., Czapanskiy, M. F., Fahlbusch, J., Kahane-Rapport, S. R., Oestreich, W. K., Bejder, L., Bierlich, K. C., Burrows, J. A., Calambokidis, J., Chenoweth, E. M., di Clemente, J., Durban, J. W., Fearnbach, H., Fish, F. E., Friedlaender, A. S., Hegelund, P., … Goldbogen, J. A. (2022). Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: Larger whales outperform expectations. Journal of Experimental Biology, 225(5). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243224 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12714 Journal of Experimental Biology |
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