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Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations

Published:2022-03-01 Issue:5 Volume:225 Page:
ISSN:0022-0949
Container-title:Journal of Experimental Biology
language:en
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Segre Paolo S.¹^ORCID,Gough William T.¹^ORCID,Roualdes Edward A.²^ORCID,Cade David E.¹³^ORCID,Czapanskiy Max F.¹^ORCID,Fahlbusch James¹⁴^ORCID,Kahane-Rapport Shirel R.¹⁵^ORCID,Oestreich William K.¹^ORCID,Bejder Lars⁶⁷^ORCID,Bierlich K. C.⁸⁹^ORCID,Burrows Julia A.⁸¹⁰^ORCID,Calambokidis John⁴^ORCID,Chenoweth Ellen M.¹¹¹²^ORCID,di Clemente Jacopo¹³¹⁴¹⁵^ORCID,Durban John W.¹⁶^ORCID,Fearnbach Holly¹⁷^ORCID,Fish Frank E.¹⁸^ORCID,Friedlaender Ari S.³^ORCID,Hegelund Peter¹⁹,Johnston David W.⁸^ORCID,Nowacek Douglas P.²⁰^ORCID,Oudejans Machiel G.²¹^ORCID,Penry Gwenith S.²²^ORCID,Potvin Jean²³^ORCID,Simon Malene¹⁹,Stanworth Andrew²⁴,Straley Janice M.¹²^ORCID,Szabo Andrew²⁵^ORCID,Videsen Simone K. A.⁷^ORCID,Visser Fleur²¹²⁶²⁷^ORCID,Weir Caroline R.²⁴^ORCID,Wiley David N.²⁸^ORCID,Goldbogen Jeremy A.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA

2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA 95929, USA

3. Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

4. Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA 98501, USA

5. Department of Biological Science, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834, USA

6. Marine Mammal Research Program, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA

7. Zoophysiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

8. Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA

9. Marine Mammal Institute, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Newport, OR 97365, USA

10. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

11. University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA

12. Department of Natural Sciences, University of Alaska Southeast, AK 99835, USA

13. Marine Mammal Research, Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

14. Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark

15. Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark

16. Southall Environmental Associates, Inc., Aptos, CA 95003, USA

17. SR3, SeaLife Response, Rehabilitation and Research, Des Moines, WA 98198, USA

18. Department of Biology, West Chester University, PA 19383, USA

19. Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk 3900, Greenland

20. Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA

21. Kelp Marine Research, 1624 CJ Hoorn, The Netherlands

22. Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha 6031, South Africa

23. Department of Physics, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO 63103, USA

24. Falklands Conservation, Stanley F1QQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands

25. Alaska Whale Foundation, Petersburg, AK 99833, USA

26. Department of Freshwater and Marine Ecology, IBED, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands

27. Department of Coastal Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, 1790 AB Den Burg, The Netherlands

28. NOAA/Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Scituate, MA 02066, USA

Abstract

ABSTRACT Despite their enormous size, whales make their living as voracious predators. To catch their much smaller, more maneuverable prey, they have developed several unique locomotor strategies that require high energetic input, high mechanical power output and a surprising degree of agility. To better understand how body size affects maneuverability at the largest scale, we used bio-logging data, aerial photogrammetry and a high-throughput approach to quantify the maneuvering performance of seven species of free-swimming baleen whale. We found that as body size increases, absolute maneuvering performance decreases: larger whales use lower accelerations and perform slower pitch-changes, rolls and turns than smaller species. We also found that baleen whales exhibit positive allometry of maneuvering performance: relative to their body size, larger whales use higher accelerations, and perform faster pitch-changes, rolls and certain types of turns than smaller species. However, not all maneuvers were impacted by body size in the same way, and we found that larger whales behaviorally adjust for their decreased agility by using turns that they can perform more effectively. The positive allometry of maneuvering performance suggests that large whales have compensated for their increased body size by evolving more effective control surfaces and by preferentially selecting maneuvers that play to their strengths.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Stanford University

Office of Naval Research

Darwin Plus

Dutch Research Council

Percy Sladen Memorial Trust

Torben and Alice Frimodts Fund

Society for Marine Mammalogy

PADI Foundation

Pacific Life Foundation

Volgenau Foundation International Fund for Animal Welfare