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Maternal kinship and fisheries interaction influence killer whale social structure

The primary prey of killer whales in the Strait of Gibraltar is the bluefin tuna. All killer whales observed in this area hunt tuna by chasing individual fish until they become exhausted and can be overcome. However, a subset of pods also interact with a dropline tuna fishery which has developed since 1995. Here, authors investigated the social structure within and among social units (pods).