Application of DNA Methylation–Based Age Estimation to Construct an Age Structure of Humpback Whales in a Newly Emerged Wintering Ground Around Hachijojima Island, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUsing a noninvasive DNA methylation (DNAm)–based age estimation method, we investigate the age structure of humpback whales that newly emerged around Hachijojima Island, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan to uncover the role of this area for this species.
Kohei Igarashi +12 more
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Southern Ocean humpback whales are shifting to an earlier return migration [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Southern Ocean ecosystem is undergoing unprecedented environmental changes, which have led to shifts in the primary food source of baleen whales, Antarctic krill.
Rebecca Dunlop +3 more
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A deep dive into fat: Investigating blubber lipidomic fingerprint of killer whales and humpback whales in northern Norway [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 In cetaceans, blubber is the primary and largest lipid body reservoir. Our current understanding about lipid stores and uses in cetaceans is still limited, and most studies only focused on a single narrow snapshot of the lipidome.
Pierre Bories +7 more
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Species distribution modelling of Bryde’s whales, humpback whales, southern right whales, and sperm whales in the southern African region to inform their conservation in expanding economies [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 In southern African waters, information about species distribution and habitat preferences of many cetacean species is limited, despite the recent economic growth that may affect them.
Jean Purdon +5 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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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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The Humpback's new Songs: Diverse and Convergent Evidence Against Vocal Culture via Copying in Humpback Whales [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2022 Singing humpback whales constantly modify their songs over hours, days, months, and years, throughout their adult lives. Intriguingly, humpbacks appear to vary songs in concert, with most singers in a population producing similar songs at any given time.
Eduardo Mercado
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Humpback whales feed on hatchery-released juvenile salmon [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Humpback whales are remarkable for the behavioural plasticity of their feeding tactics and the diversity of their diets. Within the last decade at hatchery release sites in Southeast Alaska, humpback whales have begun exploiting juvenile salmon, a ...
Ellen M. Chenoweth +4 more
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Feeding Hotspots and Distribution of Fin and Humpback Whales in the Norwegian Sea From 2013 to 2018
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are commonly found in the Norwegian Sea during the summer months. Records from around 1995 to 2004 show that their distribution patterns were mainly associated with those of ...
Sunniva Løviknes +5 more
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Detection of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) non-song vocalizations around the Vema Seamount, southeast Atlantic Ocean [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 Humpback whales are a cosmopolitan, highly vocal species. Investigated here are their vocalizations recorded at the Vema Seamount (31°38′S, 08°20′E) from moored hydrophones in the austral spring of 2019. During the 11-d recording period over 600 non-song
E. C. Ross-Marsh +5 more
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