Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales

Nicholas D. Pyenson (), Jeremy A. Goldbogen, A. Wayne Vogl, Gabor Szathmary, Richard L. Drake and Robert E. Shadwick
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Nicholas D. Pyenson: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, District of Columbia 20013-7013, USA
Jeremy A. Goldbogen: Cascadia Research Collective, 218½ West 4th Avenue
A. Wayne Vogl: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
Gabor Szathmary: FPInnovations, 2665 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1W5, Canada
Richard L. Drake: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Robert E. Shadwick: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada

Nature, 2012, vol. 485, issue 7399, 498-501

Abstract: A newly discovered sensory organ in the jaws of rorqual whales is shown to have a crucial role during lunge feeding.

Date: 2012
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