Cranial shape correlates with diet specialization in northeast Pacific killer whale (Orcinus orca) ecotypes.
Resident, transient (Bigg’s), and offshore killer whales (Orcinus orca) live in sympatric and parapatric ranges in the northeast Pacific Ocean. These ecotypes have different vocal repertoires (Ford and Fisher, 1982; Ford, 1991; Yurk, 2002), echolocation use (Barrett-Lennard et al., 1996), foraging s...
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University of British Columbia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59077 |