Food Habits
The diet of Feresa attenuata includes squid, octopus, and large fish, e.g., tuna and dolphin fish. Pygmy killer whales are also known to occasionally attack groups of small cetaceans, for instance other dolphins. (
http://www.cetacea.org/pkiller.htm, 1999; http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/tmmsn/29Species/pygmykiller.html, 1999).
Animal Foods: fish; mollusks
Primary Diet: carnivore (Piscivore , Molluscivore )
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Editor: Phil Myers, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan
Editor: Tanya Dewey, Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Author: Crystal Allen, University of Michigan
Allen, C. 2000. "Feresa attenuata" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed April 04, 2012 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Feresa_attenuata.html
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