Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Goldbogen, Jeremy A.; Vogl, A. Wayne; Szathmary, Gabor; Drake, Richard L.; Shadwick, Robert E.(2012)
Top ocean predators have evolved multiple solutions to the challenges of feeding in the water1, 2, 3. At the largest scale, rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae) engulf and filter prey-laden water by lunge feeding4, a strategy ...
Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Goldbogen, Jeremy A.; Shadwick, Robert E.(2013)
Rorqual whales (crown Balaenopteridae) are unique among aquatic vertebrates in their ability to lunge feed. During a single lunge, rorquals rapidly engulf a large volume of prey-laden water at high speed, which they then ...
Shadwick, Robert E.; Goldbogen, Jeremy A.; Potvin, Jean; Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Vogl, Wayne(2013)
Muscle serves a wide variety of mechanical functions during animal feeding and locomotion, but the performance of this tissue is limited by how far it can be extended. In rorqual whales, feeding and locomotion are integrated ...
