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Do gray whales count calories? Comparing energetic values of gray whale prey across two different feeding grounds in the eastern North Pacific

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Hildebrand, Lisa, Bernard, Kim S., and Torres, Leigh G.

Abstract:

Predators must consume enough prey to support costly events, such as reproduction. Meeting high energetic requirements is particularly challenging for migrating baleen whales as their feeding seasons are typically restricted to a limited temporal window and marine prey are notoriously patchy. We assessed the energetic value of the six most...

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and population dynamics (Owen-Smith et al., 2010; Louzao et al., 2014), and can be particularly