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Food For Thought: Different Foraging Strategies Between SRKWs And NRKWs

September 29, 2023 Dr. Jennifer Tennessen Season 3 Episode 9
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Food For Thought: Different Foraging Strategies Between SRKWs And NRKWs
Show Notes

In the Salish Sea, Southern Resident killer whales and Northern Resident killer whales both eat salmon, primarily Chinook. Although similar populations, they surprisingly have strikingly different foraging strategies. In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Tennessen, a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels at the University of Washington, explains these different strategies and their implications.