Killer whale ecotypes: is there a global model?

PJN de Bruyn, CA Tosh, A Terauds - Biological Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Killer whales, Orcinus orca, are top predators occupying key ecological roles in a variety of
ecosystems and are one of the most widely distributed mammals on the planet. In …

Direct observation of killer whales preying on white sharks and evidence of a flight response

AV Towner, AA Kock, C Stopforth, D Hurwitz… - Ecology, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) and white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are marine apex
predators that shape prey behavior and even entire ecosystems through direct predation …

Cetacean research in the southern African subregion: a review of previous studies and current knowledge

SH Elwen, KP Findlay, J Kiszka… - African Journal of Marine …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Cetacean research, in terms of the number of papers, and areas for which data are
available, has expanded considerably in the southern African subregion in the past decade …

Movement and diving of killer whales (Orcinus orca) at a Southern Ocean archipelago

RR Reisinger, M Keith, RD Andrews… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Eleven satellite tags were deployed on 9 killer whales at the Prince Edwards Islands in the
Southern Ocean. State-space switching models were used to generate position estimates …

Importance of toothfish in the diet of generalist subantarctic killer whales: implications for fisheries interactions

P Tixier, J Giménez, RR Reisinger… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Fisheries may generate new feeding opportunities for marine predators, which switch
foraging behaviour to depredation when they feed on fish directly from fishing gear …

First longitudinal study of seal-feeding killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Norwegian coastal waters

E Jourdain, D Vongraven, A Bisther, R Karoliussen - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) have been documented preying on either fish or marine
mammals in several regions, suggesting that this odontocete species has the ability to …

Novel aerial observations of a group of killer whales Orcinus orca in The Bahamas

OFL Dixon, AJ Gallagher, AV Towner - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The spatial distributions of many marine species are rapidly altering in response to
anthropogenic impacts such as climate change, with poleward shifts being exhibited by …

Killer whale acoustic patterns respond to prey abundance and environmental variability around the Prince Edward Islands, Southern Ocean

FW Shabangu, R Daniels… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Killer whales are apex predators with temporally and spatially varying distributions
throughout the world's oceans. Their ecology and behaviour are poorly understood in most …

Population size, survival and reproductive rates of northern Norwegian killer whales (Orcinus orca) in 1986–2003

S Kuningas, T Similä, PS Hammond - Journal of the Marine …, 2014 - cambridge.org
A long-term photo-identification study of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in northern Norway was
initiated in 1986, when their prey the Norwegian spring-spawning herring (Clupea …

Phylogeny and adaptation shape the teeth of insular mice

R Ledevin, P Chevret, G Ganem… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
By accompanying human travels since prehistorical times, the house mouse dispersed
widely throughout the world, and colonized many islands. The origin of the travellers …