Whales can be deep divers with seemingly no ill eff ects. In the article by Hooker and Baird (1999), why do they suspect the whale dives were aerobic?
An absence of association between dive times & SI (surface interval) shows that the dives are predominately aerobic, because of that the whales come to surface for extra oxygen when needed. Also they reduce their ascent rate while diving to large depths and its is because this when the decline in pressure might cause decompression sickness in them.
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Whales can be deep divers with seemingly no ill eff ects. In the article by Hooker and Baird (1999), why do they suspect the whale dives were aerobic?