Publications
| vocalisations of killer whales (orcinus orca) in the bremer canyon, western australia. | to date, there has been no dedicated study in australian waters on the acoustics of killer whales. hence no information has been published on the sounds produced by killer whales from this region. here we present the first acoustical analysis of recordings collected off the western australian coast. underwater sounds produced by australian killer whales were recorded during the months of february and march 2014 and 2015 in the bremer canyon in western australia. vocalisations recorded included e ... | 2015 | 26352429 |
| killer whale (orcinus orca) predation on beaked whales (mesoplodon spp.) in the bremer sub-basin, western australia. | observations of killer whales (orcinus orca) feeding on the remains of beaked whales have been previously documented; however, to date, there has been no published account of killer whales actively preying upon beaked whales. this article describes the first field observations of killer whales interacting with, hunting and preying upon beaked whales (mesoplodon spp.) on four separate occasions during 2014, 2015 and 2016 in the bremer sub-basin, off the south coast of western australia. | 2016 | 27923044 |