Figure 1
From: Kinematics and energetics of foraging behavior in Rice’s whales of the Gulf of Mexico
Dive patterns (black line) of Rice's whales (top) Milky Way and (bottom) Edna. Period between sunset and sunrise shaded gray. Dots depict foraging lunges (red), depth of fluking cessation during ascent (light blue), and descent (dark blue). Blue dashed line designates median neutral buoyancy based on the cessation of fluking during descent and ascent. Note how Milky Way ceased fluking at a shallower depth on the descent vs the ascent (dark blue dots above dashed line, light blue dots below dashed line), while Edna fluked to the same depth on both descent and ascent (light blue and dark blue dots typically at same depth).
