Predators and scavengers: Polar bears as marine carrion providers
Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 1, January 2026.Scavenging is a foraging strategy widely used across the animal kingdom and apex predators provide a large amount of energy in a food web by provisioning carrion. In the harsh environmental conditions of the Arctic, apex predators such as polar bears Ursus maritimus can provide scavenging opportunities for many species. Carrion can act as a buffer when
Holly E. L. Gamblin +5 more
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Skin microbiome of beluga whales: spatial, temporal, and health-related dynamics
Animal Microbiome, 2020 Background Host-specific microbiomes play an important role in individual health and ecology; in marine mammals, epidermal microbiomes may be a protective barrier between the host and its aqueous environment.
Amy M. Van Cise +7 more
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Beluga, Delphinapterus leucas, Habitat Associations in Cook Inlet, Alaska [PDF]
, 2000 A review of available information describing habitat associations for belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, in Cook Inlet was undertaken to complement population assessment surveys from 1993-2000.
Litzky, Laura K. +4 more
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Félix: a Late Pleistocene White Whale (Delphinapterus Leucas) Skeleton From Champlain Sea Deposits at Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Québec [PDF]
, 2006 A nearly complete, articulated skeleton of an old white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) from Champlain Sea deposits at Saint-Félix-de-Valois is the best preserved specimen of its kind recorded from North America. It is one of 21 white whale specimens known
de Vernal, Anne +3 more
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Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Monitoring live and stranded cetaceans can be expensive and logistically challenging, resulting in knowledge gaps. Very high‐resolution (VHR) optical satellites are considered a potential solution to addressing some of these gaps. Despite success at detecting live and stranded cetaceans, satellites have only been trialed on restricted ...
Penny J. Clarke +8 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 We delineated and scored Biologically Important Areas (BIAs) for cetacean species in the Gulf of Alaska region. BIAs represent areas and times in which cetaceans are known to concentrate for activities related to reproduction, feeding, and migration, and
Lauren A. Wild +8 more
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Beluga, Delphinapterus leucas, Group Sizes in Cook Inlet, Alaska, Based on Observer Counts and Aerial Video [PDF]
, 2000 Belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, groups were videotaped concurrent to observer counts during annual NMFS aerial surveys of Cook Inlet, Alaska, from 1994 to 2000. The videotapes provided permanent records of whale groups that could be examined and compared
Hobbs, Roderick C. +2 more
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Phylogeny and adaptive evolution of the brain-development gene microcephalin (MCPH1) in cetaceans. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: Representatives of Cetacea have the greatest absolute brain size among animals, and the largest relative brain size aside from humans. Despite this, genes implicated in the evolution of large brain size in primates have yet to be surveyed in ...
Clark, Clay +3 more
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The respiratory microbiota of three cohabiting beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) under human care [PDF]
, 2023 Susan A. Smith +4 more
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Membership inference attack for beluga whales discrimination
Ecological Informatics15 ...
Araújo, Voncarlos Marcelo +5 more
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