Behavioural responses of humpback whales to food-related chemical stimuli.

Baleen whales face the challenge of finding patchily distributed food in the open ocean. Their relatively well-developed olfactory structures suggest that they could identify the specific odours given off by planktonic prey such as krill aggregations. Like other marine predators, they may also detec...

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Main Authors: Bertrand Bouchard, Jean-Yves Barnagaud, Marion Poupard, Hervé Glotin, Pauline Gauffier, Sara Torres Ortiz, Thomas J Lisney, Sylvie Campagna, Marianne Rasmussen, Aurélie Célérier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212515