Solitary humpback whales manufacture bubble-nets as tools to increase prey intake.
drones
energy expenditure
foraging behaviour
prey manipulation
tool-use
unoccupied aerial systems
Journal
Royal Society open science
ISSN: 2054-5703
Titre abrégé: R Soc Open Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101647528
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2024
Aug 2024
Historique:
received:
05
04
2024
revised:
02
07
2024
accepted:
16
07
2024
medline:
22
8
2024
pubmed:
22
8
2024
entrez:
22
8
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Several animal species use tools for foraging; however, very few manufacture and/or modify those tools. Humpback whales, which manufacture bubble-net tools while foraging, are among these rare species. Using animal-borne tag and unoccupied aerial system technologies, we examine bubble-nets manufactured by solitary humpback whales (
Identifiants
pubmed: 39169963
doi: 10.1098/rsos.240328
pii: rsos240328
pmc: PMC11336686
doi:
Banques de données
figshare
['10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7408346']
Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.m0cfxppbj']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
240328Informations de copyright
© 2024 The Author(s).
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
We declare we have no competing interests.