For many marine organisms, especially large whales that cannot be studied in laboratory
settings, our ability to obtain basic behavioral and physiological data is limited, because
these organisms occupy offshore habitats and spend a majority of their time underwater. A
class of multisensor, suction-cup-attached archival tags has revolutionized the study of large
baleen whales, particularly with respect to the predatory strategies used by these gigantic
bulk filter feeders to exploit abundant oceanic resources. By integrating these data with …