The Patchy Distribution of Krill Within Temporally Transient Large Swarms Drives Collective Exploitation By Super Groups of Rorqual Whales

David Cade1,2, Mduduzi Seakamela3, Kenneth Findlay4, James Fahlbusch5, Shirel Kahane-Rapport6, William Oestreich1, John Phillip Ryan7, Elliott L. Hazen8, Ari S Friedlaender2, John Calambokidis5, Joseph D Warren9, Julie Fukunaga10, Steve Kirkman3, Deon Kotze3, Steven McCue3, Michael Meyer3, Christopher Wilke3 and Jeremy A Goldbogen11, (1)Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Department of Biology, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Science, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)South Africa Department of the Environment, South Africa, (4)Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa, (5)Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA, United States, (6)Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, United States, (7)MBARI, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (8)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (9)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (10)Stanford University, United States, (11)Hopkins Marine Station/ Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, United States