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Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) of the Barents, Kara and Laptev seas
NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2002 This paper reviews published information on the white whale or beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) inhabiting the Barents, Kara and Laptev seas. Some data obtained during multi-year aerial reconnaissance of sea ice in the Russian Arctic are also included. Ice
Andrei N Boltunov, Stanislav E Belikov
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Young Belugas Diversify Adult Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) Behavior [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2015 Across the animal kingdom, immature animals are characterized by their playfulness and diversity of behavior, but are their actions enriching to adult conspecifics?
Heather Hill +4 more
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Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) Novel Bubble Helix Play Behavior [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2014 Cetaceans demonstrate considerable ingenuity in their play with bubbles. Both wild and captive cetaceans have been reported to manipulate self-produced bubbles (Delfour & Aulagnier, 1997; Gewalt, 1989; Kuczaj, Makecha, Trone, Paulos, & Ramos, 2006 ...
Brittany L. Jones, Stan A. Kuczaj II
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BMC Genomics, 2023 Background Reference genomes provide a foundational framework for evolutionary investigations, ecological analysis, and conservation science, yet uncertainties in the assembly of reference genomes are difficult to assess, and by extension rarely ...
Trevor T. Bringloe, Geneviève J. Parent
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Lateralized sound production in the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2020 Like other toothed whales, belugas produce sound through pneumatic actuation of two phonic lip pairs, but it is unclear whether both pairs are actuated concurrently to generate a single sound (the dual actuation hypothesis) or laterally in the production of their rich vocal repertoires.
Audra E. Ames +2 more
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Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) behaviour in the presence of whale-watching vessels
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) are social animals that return to the same estuaries each summer season. The Western Hudson Bay belugas in the Churchill River estuary appear to be attracted to boats, resulting in whale-watching being a popular ...
Kristin H. Westdal +6 more
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Genome Sequence of an Alphaherpesvirus from a Beluga Whale (<i>Delphinapterus leucas</i>). [PDF]
Genome Announc, 2017 ABSTRACT Beluga whale alphaherpesvirus 1 was isolated from a blowhole swab taken from a juvenile beluga whale. The genome is 144,144 bp in size and contains 86 putative genes. The virus groups phylogenetically with members of the genus Varicellovirus in subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae ...
Davison AJ +6 more
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Banded karyotypes of a belukha whale, Delphinapterus leucas [PDF]
Hereditas, 2009 Chromosomes of a belukha whale, Delphinapterus leucas (Monodontidae), were studied by homogeneous staining, G- and C-sequential banding, direct C-banding and N-banding. The belukha has a typical cetacean 2n=44 karyotype. Banded karyotypes were compared with previously published karyotypes of Monodon monoceros and delphinid cetaceans.
G H, Jarrell, U, Arnason
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Adults Play but Not Like Their Young: The Frequency and Types of Play by Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in Human Care [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2014 While play occurs in many taxa with younger conspecifics engaging in play behaviors more often than older conspecifics, little empirical research currently exists on play by white whales, or belugas, (Delphinapterus leucas).
Heather Hill, Domonique Ramirez
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Polar bear attack on a juvenile narwhal
Fauna Norvegica, 1990 A juvenile female narwhal Monodon monoceros landed at Pond Inlet had several sets of scratches on the posterior part of the body. They were probably made by a polar bear Ursus maritimus in the course of an unsuccessful attack.
Michael C.S. Kingsley
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