Lifetime glucocorticoid profiles in baleen of right whale calves: potential relationships to chronic stress of repeated wounding by Kelp Gulls. [PDF]
Conserv Physiol, 2018 Baleen tissue accumulates stress hormones (glucocorticoids, GC) as it grows, along with other adrenal, gonadal and thyroid hormones. The hormones are deposited in a linear fashion such that a single plate of baleen allows retrospective assessment and ...
Fernández Ajó AA +7 more
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Migratory behaviour of humpback whales in the southeastern Pacific under climate change [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHumpback whales, a species of baleen whale occurring in all oceans globally, undergo seasonal migration between their breeding grounds in tropical warm waters and high latitude feeding grounds.
Virginie Millien +3 more
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Migraciones de la ballena jorobada
Ciencias Ambientales, 2004 Se da cuenta de las rutas que en sus migraciones por el mundo sigue la ballena jorobada,que es una de las dos es-pecies de ballenas cuyos desplazamientos son bien conoci-dos.Se hace hincapié en su paso por la costa pacífica cos-tarricense, revelando las
Javier Rodríguez
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Narrativas etnográficas sobre ballenas y balleneros en las costas de Chile
Antipoda, 2017 The history of the commercial hunting of whales in Chile allows us to distinguish three foreign whaling traditions, which we shall call the “Yankee”, the “Norwegian” and the “Japanese”, which inserted themselves into a pre-existing tradition: passive ...
Daniel Quiroz, Gastón Carreño
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Multiyear Baleen Endocrine Profiles Suggest a Longer Estimated Gestation in Southern Right Whales (<i>Eubalaena australis</i>). [PDF]
Ecol EvolMultiyear profiles of progesterone and estrogen in the baleen of adult female southern right whales indicate progesterone elevations lasting on average between 20 and 25 months, indicative of pregnancies longer than previously estimated. These data are in line with endocrine profiles in baleen of other Balaenid whales incl.
Shuttleworth L +7 more
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Accounting for Earth's curvature and elevation in animal movement modeling. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Animals move in three dimensions, yet movement models do not capture the third dimension when data are collected as longitude and latitude coordinates (only) and models are developed in two dimensions. Here, we ask the question to what extent topography and the shape of the Earth—its ellipsoidal shape—affect the quantification of animal ...
Meyer TH +8 more
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Evaluating drivers of recent large whale strandings on the East Coast of the United States. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Anthropogenic stressors threaten large whales globally. Effective management requires an understanding of where, when, and why threats are occurring. Strandings data provide key information on geographic hotspots of risk and the relative importance of various threats.
Thorne LH, Wiley DN.
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A new record of the Blackish Oystercatcher, Haematopus ater ater (Vieillot and Oudart, 1825), in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador [PDF]
Check List, 2016 We report a record of a single individual of the Blackish Oystercatcher, Haematopus ater ater (Vieillot and Oudart, 1825), photographed on 7 February 2015 in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador (02.73° S, 080.22° W).
Fernando Félix, Ben Haase
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A La Caza de Ballenas: La Exploración Documental. [PDF]
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2009 Mónica L. Espinosa Arango.
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