First Long-Term Behavioral Records from Cuvier’s Beaked Whales (Ziphius cavirostris) Reveal Record-Breaking Dives

Gregory S. Schorr; Erin A. Falcone; David J. Moretti; Russel D. Andrews

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092633

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First Long-Term Behavioral Records from Cuvier’s Beaked Whales (Ziphius cavirostris) Reveal Record-Breaking Dives

Gregory S. Schorr ,

* E-mail: gschorr@cascadiaresearch.org

Affiliation Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, Washington, United States of America
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Erin A. Falcone,

Affiliation Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, Washington, United States of America
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David J. Moretti,

Affiliation Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Russel D. Andrews

Affiliations School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America, Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, Alaska, United States of America
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First Long-Term Behavioral Records from Cuvier’s Beaked Whales (Ziphius cavirostris) Reveal Record-Breaking Dives

Gregory S. Schorr,
Erin A. Falcone,
David J. Moretti,
Russel D. Andrews

Published: March 26, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092633

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confirming an inference?

Posted by LesW on 27 Mar 2014 at 18:17 GMT

In 2010 Auster and Watling published a short paper in Marine Mammal Science where the presence of beaked whale feeding was inferred from marks seen on the seafloor. The deepest was at 2765 m. At the time that was much deeper than records indicated beaked whales would go. But we could not come up with any other explanation for the shape and orientation of the marks.

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confirming an inference?

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