• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1060514
Corpus ID: 9156299

Hydrodynamic Trail-Following in Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina)

@article{Dehnhardt2001HydrodynamicTI,
  title={Hydrodynamic Trail-Following in Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina)},
  author={G. Dehnhardt and B. Mauck and W. Hanke and H. Bleckmann},
  journal={Science},
  year={2001},
  volume={293},
  pages={102 - 104}
}

G. Dehnhardt, B. Mauck, +1 author H. Bleckmann

Published 2001

Biology, Medicine

Science

Marine mammals often forage in dark or turbid waters. Whereas dolphins use echolocation under such conditions, pinnipeds apparently lack this sensory ability. For seals hunting in the dark, one source of sensory information may consist of fish-generated water movements, which seals can detect with their highly sensitive whiskers. Water movements in the wake of fishes persist for several minutes. Here we show that blindfolded seals can use their whiskers to detect and accurately follow… CONTINUE READING

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