The giant rorqual whales are believed to have a massive food turnover driven by a high-
intake lunge feeding style aptly described as the world's largest biomechanical action. This …

Understanding how the environment mediates an organism's ability to meet basic survival
requirements is a fundamental goal of ecology. Vessel noise is a global threat to marine …

Bioenergetics is the study of how animals achieve energetic balance. Energetic balance
results from the energetic expenditure of an individual and the energy they extract from their …

Although gigantic body size and obligate filter feeding mechanisms have evolved in multiple
vertebrate lineages (mammals and fishes), intermittent ram (lunge) filter feeding is unique to …

We consider how the ongoing recovery of baleen whale populations requires improved
understanding when managing the largest commercial fishery in the Southern Ocean, the …

Determining how animals allocate energy, and how external factors influence this allocation,
is crucial to understand species' life history requirements and response to disturbance. This …

Climate change is resulting in decreased sea ice extent and increased industrial activity in
Arctic regions. In northern Alaska, USA, sea ice loss has increased the frequency of land …

Cetacean ecology has been poorly studied in the Shanghai-Zhejiang waters of East China
Sea, seriously hindering appropriate local conservation practices. Here stranding records …

The ecological impact of environmental changes at high latitudes (eg, increasing
temperature, and decreased sea ice cover) on low-trophic species, such as bowhead …

Male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) sing in mating aggregations in the form
of song displays, but much less is known about how both sexes use sound on their feeding …