| Summary: | Figure 3. A mother humpback and her calf at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Although the killer whales broke off the attack when the pair moved into shallow reef waters, the damage to the calf's lower jaw during the attack would likely prove fatal (#11). Photo: J. Totterdell. Published as part of Pitman, Robert L., Totterdell, John A., Fearnbach, Holly, Ballance, Lisa T., Durban, John W. & Kemps, Hans, 2015, Whale killers: Prevalence and ecological implications of killer whale predation on humpback whale calves off Western Australia, pp. 629-657 in Marine Mammal Science 31 (2) on page 641, DOI:10.1111/mms.12182, http://zenodo.org/record/12761484
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