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First filter feeding in the Early Triassic: cranial morphological convergence between Hupehsuchus and baleen whales [PDF]
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Modern baleen whales are unique as large-sized filter feeders, but their roles were replicated much earlier by diverse marine reptiles of the Mesozoic.
Zi-Chen Fang +8 more
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Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Living baleen whales (mysticetes) are bulk filter feeders that use keratinous baleen plates to filter food from prey laden water. Extant mysticetes are born entirely edentulous, though they possess tooth buds early in ontogeny, a trait inherited from ...
Carlos Mauricio Peredo +1 more
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Culture and conservation in baleen whales. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciCulture, defined as information or behaviours shared within a population and acquired from conspecifics through social learning, acts as a second inheritance system which has important implications for species' ecology and evolution. Understanding the influence of social learning and culture in animals' lives is essential to planning and predicting ...
Garland EC +9 more
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Marine soundscape variation reveals insights into baleen whales and their environment: a case study in central New Zealand [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Baleen whales reliably produce stereotyped vocalizations, enabling their spatio-temporal distributions to be inferred from acoustic detections. Soundscape analysis provides an integrated approach whereby vocal species, such as baleen whales, are sampled ...
Victoria E. Warren +4 more
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Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations. [PDF]
J Exp Biol, 2022 ABSTRACT Despite their enormous size, whales make their living as voracious predators. To catch their much smaller, more maneuverable prey, they have developed several unique locomotor strategies that require high energetic input, high mechanical power output and a surprising degree of agility.
Segre PS +32 more
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Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsBaleen whales migrate from productive high-latitude feeding grounds to usually oligotrophic tropical and subtropical reproductive winter grounds, translocating limiting nutrients across ecosystem boundaries in their bodies.
Joe Roman +9 more
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Lethal entanglement in baleen whales [PDF]
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 2011 Understanding the scenarios whereby fishing gear entanglement of large whales induces mortality is important for the development of mitigation strategies. Here we present a series of 21 cases involving 4 species of baleen whales in the NW Atlantic, describing the available sighting history, necropsy observations, and subsequent data analyses that ...
David S Rotstein, Michael J Moore
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Baleen whales that undertake extensive long-distance migrations away from reliable food sources must depend on body reserves acquired prior to migration. Prey abundance fluctuates, which has been linked in some regions with climate cycles. However, where
Adelaide Dedden, Tracey L Rogers
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PLoS ONE, 2017 Baleen has been harvested by indigenous people for thousands of years, as well as collected by whalers as an additional product of commercial whaling in modern times.
Caroline Solazzo, Jolon M Dyer
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OceansBaleen whales are ecosystem sentinels of microplastic pollution. Research indicates that they likely ingest millions of anthropogenic microparticles per day when feeding.
Alexander J Werth +2 more
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