The Impact of Vessels on Humpback Whale Behavior: The Benefit of Added Whale Watching Guidelines
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The concurrent increase in marine tourism and vessel traffic around the world highlights the need for developing responsible whale watching guidelines. To determine the impact of vessel presence on humpback whale behaviors in Maui Nui, a land-based study
Jens Currie, Stephanie H Stack
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Humpback whale song recordings suggest common feeding ground occupation by multiple populations [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Humpback whale males are known to sing on their low-latitude breeding grounds, but it is well established that songs are also commonly produced ‘off-season’ on the feeding grounds or during migration.
Elena Schall +6 more
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Humpback Whale Movements and Behavior in Response to Whale-Watching Vessels in Juneau, AK
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 The whale-watching industry in Juneau, Alaska relies primarily on the presence of North Pacific humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). To meet demands from the rapidly growing tourism industry, the number of whale-watching vessels in this region has ...
Sarah Piwetz +2 more
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Large-scale spatial variabilities in the humpback whale acoustic presence in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) inhabit a wide variety of ecosystems including both low- and high-latitude areas. Understanding the habitat selection of humpback whale populations is key for humpback whale stock management ...
Elena Schall +5 more
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The Southern Ocean Exchange: porous boundaries between humpback whale breeding populations in southern polar waters [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are a cosmopolitan species and perform long annual migrations between low-latitude breeding areas and high-latitude feeding areas.
M. C. C. Marcondes +23 more
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Male Humpback Whale Chorusing in Hawai‘i and Its Relationship With Whale Abundance and Density
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) with autonomous bottom-moored recorders is widely used to study cetacean occurrence, distribution and behaviors, as it is less affected by factors that limit other observation methods (e.g., vessel, land and aerial-based
Adam Pack, Marc Lammers, Pack Adam A
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A collaborative and near-comprehensive North Pacific humpback whale photo-ID dataset [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 We present an ocean-basin-scale dataset that includes tail fluke photographic identification (photo-ID) and encounter data for most living individual humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the North Pacific Ocean.
Ted Cheeseman +68 more
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First documented movement of a humpback whale between the Cape Verde Islands and West Greenland [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe endangered population of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) breeding and calving off the Cape Verde Islands (CVI) are known to migrate to feeding areas located along the eastern margin of the North Atlantic Ocean (Iceland, and Norway). Here, we
Valerie Chosson +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Swim-with-whale tourism has expanded across several countries globally, with humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) being the most commonly targeted species of baleen whale.
Stephanie H. Stack +6 more
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Southern right whale vocalizations on foraging grounds in South Georgia [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2021 Southern right whale vocalizations were recorded concurrently with visual observations off the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia, and the characteristics of these calls were described.
Susannah V. Calderan +8 more
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