Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals
Background. Free-ranging narwhals (Monodon monoceros) were instrumented in Admiralty Inlet, Canada with both satellite tags to study migration and stock separation and short-term, high-resolution digital archival tags to explore diving and feeding behaviour. Three narwhals were equipped with an unde...
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ftunstandrewcris:oai:risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk:publications/43b327c7-0c24-448f-b810-d1d27114dfff 2023-05-15T17:13:06+02:00 Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals Dietz, Rune Shapiro, Ari D. Bakhtiari, Mehdi Orr, Jack Tyack, Peter L. Richard, Pierre Eskesen, Ida Grønborg Marshall, Greg 2007-12-01 https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/upsidedown-swimming-behaviour-of-freeranging-narwhals(43b327c7-0c24-448f-b810-d1d27114dfff).html https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-7-14 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38949092085&partnerID=8YFLogxK eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Dietz , R , Shapiro , A D , Bakhtiari , M , Orr , J , Tyack , P L , Richard , P , Eskesen , I G & Marshall , G 2007 , ' Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals ' , BMC Ecology , vol. 7 , 14 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-7-14 article 2007 ftunstandrewcris https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-7-14 2022-06-02T07:49:08Z Background. Free-ranging narwhals (Monodon monoceros) were instrumented in Admiralty Inlet, Canada with both satellite tags to study migration and stock separation and short-term, high-resolution digital archival tags to explore diving and feeding behaviour. Three narwhals were equipped with an underwater camera pod (Crittercam), another individual was equipped with a digital archival tag (DTAG), and a fifth with both units during August 2003 and 2004. Results. Crittercam footage indicated that of the combined 286 minutes of recordings, 12% of the time was spent along the bottom. When the bottom was visible in the camera footage, the narwhals were oriented upside-down 80% of the time (range: 61 100%). The DTAG data (14.6 hours of recordings) revealed that during time spent below the surface, the two tagged narwhals were supine an average of 13% (range: 9-18%) of the time. Roughly 70% of this time spent in a supine posture occurred during the descent. Conclusion. Possible reasons for this upside-down swimming behaviour are discussed. No preference for a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction of roll was observed, discounting the possibility that rolling movements contribute to the asymmetric left-handed helical turns of the tusk. Article in Journal/Newspaper Monodon monoceros narwhal* University of St Andrews: Research Portal Admiralty Inlet ENVELOPE(-86.000,-86.000,72.501,72.501) Canada The Tusk ENVELOPE(-168.250,-168.250,-84.867,-84.867) BMC Ecology 7 1 14 |
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Background. Free-ranging narwhals (Monodon monoceros) were instrumented in Admiralty Inlet, Canada with both satellite tags to study migration and stock separation and short-term, high-resolution digital archival tags to explore diving and feeding behaviour. Three narwhals were equipped with an underwater camera pod (Crittercam), another individual was equipped with a digital archival tag (DTAG), and a fifth with both units during August 2003 and 2004. Results. Crittercam footage indicated that of the combined 286 minutes of recordings, 12% of the time was spent along the bottom. When the bottom was visible in the camera footage, the narwhals were oriented upside-down 80% of the time (range: 61 100%). The DTAG data (14.6 hours of recordings) revealed that during time spent below the surface, the two tagged narwhals were supine an average of 13% (range: 9-18%) of the time. Roughly 70% of this time spent in a supine posture occurred during the descent. Conclusion. Possible reasons for this upside-down swimming behaviour are discussed. No preference for a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction of roll was observed, discounting the possibility that rolling movements contribute to the asymmetric left-handed helical turns of the tusk. |
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Dietz, Rune Shapiro, Ari D. Bakhtiari, Mehdi Orr, Jack Tyack, Peter L. Richard, Pierre Eskesen, Ida Grønborg Marshall, Greg Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals |
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Dietz, Rune Shapiro, Ari D. Bakhtiari, Mehdi Orr, Jack Tyack, Peter L. Richard, Pierre Eskesen, Ida Grønborg Marshall, Greg |
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Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals |
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Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals |
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Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals |
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Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals |
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Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals |
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upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals |
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https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/upsidedown-swimming-behaviour-of-freeranging-narwhals(43b327c7-0c24-448f-b810-d1d27114dfff).html https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-7-14 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38949092085&partnerID=8YFLogxK |
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Dietz , R , Shapiro , A D , Bakhtiari , M , Orr , J , Tyack , P L , Richard , P , Eskesen , I G & Marshall , G 2007 , ' Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals ' , BMC Ecology , vol. 7 , 14 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-7-14 |
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