First documented movement of wild killer whales (Orcinus orca) between Iceland and Norway [Note]

Mrusczok, Marie‐Thérèse; Luck, Emma; Cheeseman, Ted; Coleman, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0162-8356; Cotín, Javier; Peacock, Andrew; Stefansson, Robert A.; von Schmalensee, Menja. 2024 First documented movement of wild killer whales (Orcinus orca) between Iceland and Norway [Note]. Marine Mammal Science, e13187. 7, pp. 10.1111/mms.13187

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Abstract/Summary

Kller whales (Orcinus orca, Linnaeus 1758) are wide-ranging throughout the world's oceans (Forney & Wade, 2006)and can travel over large distances (Dahlheim et al., 2008; Durban & Pitman, 2012). In the North Atlantic, long-distance movements of killer whales have been recorded from the eastern Canadian Arctic to near the Azores(Matthews et al., 2011), from Scotland to Norway (Eve Jourdain, personal communication, November 2022), repeat-edly between Iceland and Scotland (Mrusczok & Scullion, 2019; Samarra & Foote, 2015), as well as between Iceland,Scotland, and the Faroe Islands (Scullion et al., 2021; Andrew Scullion, personal communication, November 2022).The longest one-way distance recorded for killer whales was documented with the movement of a male from Icelandvia Spain and Italy to Lebanon and Israel traveling over 8,000 km (Mrusczok, Violi, et al., 2022; Mrusczok, vonSchmalensee, et al., 2022) [...]

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1111/mms.13187
ISSN:	0824-0469
Date made live:	27 Sep 2024 09:47 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538093

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1111/mms.13187

ISSN:

0824-0469

Date made live:

27 Sep 2024 09:47 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538093