Albatrosses associating with killer whales
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Description: English: Black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophrys) associating with a killer whale to profit from pieces of food left by the whale. Picture taken by a albatros-borne camera. Date:. Source: Sakamoto KQ, Takahashi A, Iwata T, Trathan PN, 2009 From the Eye of the Albatrosses: A Bird-Borne Camera Shows an Association between Albatrosses and a Killer Whale in the Southern Ocean. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7322. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007322. Author: Sakamoto KQ, Takahashi A, Iwata T, Trathan PN.
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- Sakamoto KQ, Takahashi A, Iwata T, Trathan PN, 2009 From the Eye of the Albatrosses: A Bird-Borne Camera Shows an Association between Albatrosses and a Killer Whale in the Southern Ocean. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7322. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007322
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