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Wild Encounters: Analyzing Human–Animal Interactions in British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums Facilities

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
We investigated the quantity and diversity of animal–visitor interactions in BIAZA‐accredited facilities, finding 740 opportunities for interactions across a range of contexts including walkthroughs and handling. Meet and greets were the most offered and were influenced by the number of individual animals, cost of interaction, and animal popularity ...
Thomas Welsh, Emma L. Clayton, Annika Paukner, Ellen Williams, Samantha Ward   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years

Marine mammal science, 2019
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Coombs, E.J., Deaville, R., Sabin, R.C., Allan, L., O'Connell, M., Berrow, S., Smith, B., Brownlow, A., Doeschate, M.T., Penrose, R., Williams, R., Perkins, M.W., Jepson, P.D.
Ellen J. Coombs, R. Deaville, Richard C. Sabin, Louise Allan, Mick O'Connell, S. Berrow, Brian D. Smith, A. Brownlow, M. T. Doeschate, R. Penrose, Ruth Williams, M. Perkins, P. Jepson, N. Cooper   +13 more
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Reversing decline: The impact of spatial conservation on endangered northern bottlenose whales

Journal of Applied Ecology, EarlyView.
Spatial protection of the Gully MPA in 2004 coincided with a shift in human activities and the first signs of population recovery for northern bottlenose whales. While this suggests that well‐designed MPAs can contribute to conservation outcomes even for highly mobile species, long‐term success likely depends on continued monitoring and effective ...
Laura Feyrer, Sam F. Walmsley, Madison A. Stewart, M. Aaron MacNeil, Hal Whitehead   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Annual phenology and migration routes to breeding grounds in western-central North Pacific sei whales

Scientific Reports
The sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) is an important species among baleen whales in the North Pacific and plays a significant role in the ecosystem.
Kenji Konishi, Shingo Minamikawa, Lars Kleivane, Megumi Takahashi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Habitat partitioning, co-occurrence patterns, and mixed-species group formation in sympatric delphinids

Scientific Reports, 2023
Numerous species have been reported to form mixed-species groups, however, little is known about the interplay between niche partitioning and mixed-species group formation.
Jonathan Syme, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Guido J. Parra   +2 more
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Cetaceans in African Lakes [PDF]

Nature, 1891
WITH reference to Mr. Sclater's inquiry (NATURE, June 11, p. 124) as to the occurrence of porpoises in the Victoria Nyanza, the following extract from Bernier, who wrote about 230 years ago, will probably prove of interest.
openaire   +2 more sources

Insight Into Body Size Evolution in Aves: Based on Some Body Size–Related Genes

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
These findings provide new insights into the genetic determinants of body size evolutionary mechanisms in Aves. ABSTRACT Birds exhibit remarkable variations in body size, making them an ideal group for the study of adaptive evolution. However, the genetic mechanisms underlying body size evolution in avian species remain inadequately understood.
Chaoyang Luo, Xionghui Xu, Chengfa Zhao, Qiuping Wang, Rongxing Wang, Datian Lang, Juan Zhang, Wenxian Hu, Yuan Mu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Causes and consequences of female centrality in cetacean societies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2019
Cetaceans are fully aquatic predatory mammals that have successfully colonized virtually all marine habitats. Their adaptation to these habitats, so radically different from those of their terrestrial ancestors, can give us comparative insights into the ...
L. Rendell, M. Cantor, S. Gero, H. Whitehead, J. Mann   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Severe Hearing Loss in the World's First Successfully Captive‐Born Yangtze Finless Porpoise: Impact of High Underwater Sound Exposure and Congenital Hearing Disorders

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
The audiogram of the world's first successfully captive‐born Yangtze finless porpoise was on average 40 dB higher than conspecifics. Congenital hearing disorders and noise exposure may be the primary cause of porpoise's hearing loss. ABSTRACT Aquariums globally have seen significant growth in recent decades.
Zhitao Wang, Tomonari Akamatsu, Kexiong Wang, Ding Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population genomics of finless porpoises reveal an incipient cetacean species adapted to freshwater

Nature Communications, 2018
Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) are a group of mammals adapted to various aquatic habitats, from oceans to freshwater rivers. We report the sequencing, de novo assembly and analysis of a finless porpoise genome, and the re-sequencing of an ...
Xuming Zhou, Xuanmin Guang, Di Sun, Shixia Xu, Mingzhou Li, I. Seim, Wencai Jie, Linfeng Yang, Qianhua Zhu, Jiabao Xu, Q. Gao, Alaattin Kaya, Qianhui Dou, Bingyao Chen, Wenhua Ren, Shuaicheng Li, K. Zhou, V. Gladyshev, R. Nielsen, X. Fang, Guang Yang   +20 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source