IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/beheco/v28y2017i2p500-514..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A multilevel society of herring-eating killer whales indicates adaptation to prey characteristics

Author

Listed:
  • Sara B. Tavares
  • Filipa I.P. Samarra
  • Patrick J.O. Miller

Abstract

Lay Summary Killer whale social structure has been thought to be prey-type (fish vs. marine mammal) specific. We show that the Icelandic population, which feeds on herring, presents a multilevel society with no clear hierarchical stratification nor coherent social groups. This differs from other populations, suggesting that local ecological characteristics such as traits of the target prey and employed foraging strategy may be important drivers in shaping the social structure of the species.

Suggested Citation

  • Sara B. Tavares & Filipa I.P. Samarra & Patrick J.O. Miller, 2017. "A multilevel society of herring-eating killer whales indicates adaptation to prey characteristics," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 28(2), pages 500-514.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:28:y:2017:i:2:p:500-514.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/beheco/arw179
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:28:y:2017:i:2:p:500-514.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/beheco .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.