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Short Note: Observations of top predators foraging on fish in the pack ice of the southern Ross Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2007

Giancarlo Lauriano ,
Marino Vacchi ,
David Ainley  and
Grant Ballard
Giancarlo Lauriano*
Affiliation:
Central Institute for Marine Research (ICRAM), Via di Casalotti, 300, 00166 Rome, Italy
Marino Vacchi
Affiliation:
ICRAM c/o Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide, Università di Genova, Viale Benedetto XV, 5, I-16132 Genova, Italy
David Ainley
Affiliation:
H.T. Harvey & Associates, San Jose, CA 95118, USA
Grant Ballard
Affiliation:
PRBO Conservation Science, Bolinas, CA 94924, USA Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand
*
Corresponding author: g.lauriano@icram.org
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New micro-technology with links to satellites has revolutionized the collection of information on the foraging movements of marine animals, but observations of actual foraging are still very rare. Here we describe foraging by killer whales (Orcinus orca (L.)), minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis Burmeister), Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron & Jacquinot)) and emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri Gray), in all cases we believe feeding on fish, in the south-western Ross Sea, Antarctica.

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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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Antarctic Science , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 439 - 440
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Copyright © Antarctic Science Ltd 2007

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