Baleen whales are key consumers in marine ecosystems and can serve as ecosystem sentinels. Body condition, defined as an individual’s energy stores relative to its structural size, can provide a useful proxy for health in baleen whales.
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Soundings: the Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. 2004 [PDF]
(PDF contains 92 pages.
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Soundings: the Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. 2006 [PDF]
(PDF contains 88 pages.
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Darwin and evolution: a set of activities based on the evolution of mammals [PDF]
These activities, prepared for key stage 5 students (ages 16-18) and also suitable for key stage 4 (ages 14-16), show that physical appearance is not necessarily the best way to classify mammals.
Haresnape, Janet
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Around 1480, when he was 28 years old, Leonardo da Vinci recorded what may have been a seminal event in his life. In writing of his travels to view nature he recounted an experience in a cave in the Tuscan countryside: Having wandered for some distance ...
Etheridge, Kay
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What normal used to be: Longitudinal adrenal, reproductive, and thyroid hormone profiles from four bowhead whales during a period of Arctic stability. [PDF]
Jelincic J +9 more
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Characterising the gut microbiomes of two baleen whales with different feeding and migratory strategies. [PDF]
Parikh A +8 more
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A multidisciplinary assessment of endocrine and morphometric correlates of lactation physiology in southern right whales. [PDF]
Shuttleworth L +2 more
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Features of interest from a multi-season satellite survey of baleen whales on the West Antarctic Peninsula. [PDF]
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