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  • Marine Biology
  • Bioenergetics
  • Animal Behavior

Background:

  • Respiration rates in cetaceans are crucial for estimating oxygen intake, metabolic rates, and energy expenditure.
  • Understanding respiration during various behaviors (resting, traveling, foraging) is key to assessing energetic costs and environmental stress impacts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To calculate respiration rates for different behavioral states in southern and northern resident killer whales.
  • To estimate oxygen consumption rates based on these behavioral states.
  • To inform bioenergetics models with behavior-specific data for improved predictions.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized drone video footage and animal-borne biologging data to track killer whale behavior.
  • Employed hierarchical hidden Markov models (HHMM) to predict behavioral states from dive track data.
  • Calculated respiration and oxygen consumption rates for identified behaviors.

Main Results:

  • Juvenile killer whales exhibited higher respiration rates when traveling (1.6 breaths/min) compared to resting (1.2) and foraging (1.5).
  • Adult males showed higher respiration rates when traveling (1.8 breaths/min) versus foraging (1.7) and resting (1.3).
  • Estimated oxygen consumption varied significantly between age groups and behaviors.

Conclusions:

  • Killer whale respiration rates are behavior, age, and sex-specific.
  • Accurate energy expenditure and food requirement predictions necessitate using these specific rates.
  • Findings enhance bioenergetics models for apex predators like killer whales.