Beaked and killer whales show how collective prey behaviour foils acoustic predators
Natacha Aguilar de Soto, Fleur Visser, Peter Madsen, Peter Tyack, Graeme Ruxton, Patricia Arranz, Jesús Alcazar, Mark Johnson
The paper shows how synchronized vocalization and acoustic hiding in beaked whales reduce predation risk from killer whales despite group aggregation.
bioRxiv · Apr 18, 2018 · PreprintEcology