Food and Feeding Habits Summary - Physeter macrocephalus

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Food and Feeding Habits Summary Physeter macrocephalus

Main Ref.	Santos, M.B., G.J. Pierce, P.R. Boyle, R.J. Reid, H.M. Ross, I.A.P. Patterson, C.C. Kinze, S. Tougaard, R. Lick, U. Piatkowski and V. Hernández-Garcia, 1999
Fish stage	juv./adults	Mean length	none
Sample size		Percent empty
Country	UK Scotland	Locality	Orkney
Period	January February March April May June July August September October November December Highlighted items on the list are known Feeding Periods of Physeter macrocephalus

Diet percent	Food I	Food II	Food III	Prey stage	Item Name
0.09 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Teuthowenia megalops
0.13 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Histioteuthis bonnellii
0.77 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Haliphron atlanticus
99.02 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Gonatus sp.