Underwater Behaviour - Minke Whale Project
During a jaw gape, a whale opens its jaws exposing its baleen plates and oral cavity. This behaviour can be displayed on the surface (e.g in combination with a spyhop/headrise) or underwater and can range from the whale flashing its baleen to fully opening its mouth. A gulp occurs when a whale opens jaws and partly or fully inflates its throat ...
Minke Whale - NOAA Fisheries
2024年11月26日 · Underwater sounds and anthropogenic noise are an increasing concern for baleen whales, such as minke whales, which use low-frequency sounds to communicate with one another and to locate prey. Vessel Strikes
Behaviour - Minke Whale Project
Dwarf minke whales are highly manoeuvrable, acrobatic little whales which in many ways behave more like dolphins than other baleen whales. The following pages describe a number of behaviours that have been recorded by members of the MWP research team over 17 years of field observations.
Foraging Behavior and Ecological Role of the Antarctic Minke Whale …
Antarctic minke whales are the largest ice-obligate krill predator in the region yet little is known about their foraging behavior and ecology. The goals of our research project are to use suite of new technological tools to measure the underwater behavior of the whales and better understand how they exploit the sea ice habitat.
Minke Whale - Ocean Conservation Research
Learn about the minke whale, one of it's vocalizations was known as a mysterious "boing" sound that baffled submarines before we discovered the species.
Minke Whales - ArcGIS StoryMaps
2024年11月4日 · It is also possible that Minke whales avoid these areas because of the risk of vessel strikes or underwater noise that occurs near the shipping lanes. This chart shows the distribution of behaviors that were noted in each Minke whale observation. The most common behaviors witnessed are feeding and traveling (and unknown).
Article | Minke Whales | Underwater Australasia
The minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrat) is a type of baleen whale, which means it draws huge quantities of water into its mouth over its "baleen" (a bony filter for capturing its food, small crustaceans). Its mating season is in late winter and "gestation" lasts for ten months.
Biology - Minke Whale Project
The low frequency sounds can travel great distances underwater and may allow scattered groups of whales to maintain contact over kilometres or tens of kilometres. Minke whales are not known to echolocate but their sounds could be used to detect large objects (e.g. reefs).
Minke Whale - New Bedford Whaling Museum
They are generally solitary animals but can be found in small groups of 4 to 6. They can stay underwater for up to 20 minutes. Minke ( Meincke) was an 18th-century Norwegian whaler, infamously known for habitually breaking the rules concerning the sizes of …
Minke Whales - Whalespotter
Minke Whales are fast, active and highly manoeuvrable whales that are beautifully shaped and coloured, particularly the Dwarf Minke Whale. They are the second smallest of the baleen whales with only the Pygmy Right Whale being smaller.