Fussy feeders or fallacy? Investigating the prevalence of prey preference in killer whales, globally and in the Southern Ocean.

• Main Author: Foster, Rose Nichol
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Gerlache; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Killer Whale; North Atlantic; Orca; Orcinus orca; Killer whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/18588

Killer whales (Orcinus orca, Linnaeus 1758) are a cosmopolitan species, being found in all the world’s oceans and most of its seas. There are currently ten ecotypes recognised globally and these distinct groups can be differentiated by variations in their morphology, societal structure, vocalisation...