Killer whale predation on bluefin tuna: exploring the hypothesis of the endurance-exhaustion technique

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Swimming speed, respiration rate, and estimated cost of transport in adult killer whales (2009, background): “In fact, it has been proposed that killer whales rely on endurance to catch tuna rather than on sprinting speed (Guinet et al. 2007).”
Cultural traditions and the evolution of reproductive isolation: ecological speciation in killer whales? (2012, background): “orca foraging on tuna (Guinet et al., 2007) are likely to differ from those needed for foraging on salmon (Ford et al.”
Satellite tracking reveals distinct movement patterns for Type B and Type C killer whales in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica (2008, background): “Killer whales can travel at over 30 km h¡1 for short periods of up to 15 min (C. Matkin, personal communication), with an estimated maximum sustainable swimming speed of 20 km h¡1 (Guinet et al. 2007); therefore we chose 25 km h¡1 as the upper limit for our purposes.”