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Evidence of spatial structuring of eastern South Pacific humpback whale feeding grounds
Endangered Species Research, 2013 The eastern South Pacific humpback whale population winters primarily off Colombia and Ecuador, extending northward to the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica.
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More of the same: allopatric humpback whale populations share acoustic repertoire [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are a widespread, vocal baleen whale best known for producing song, a complex, repetitive, geographically distinct acoustic signal sung by males, predominantly in a breeding context.
Michelle E.H. Fournet +4 more
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The Beat Goes On: Humpback Whale Song Seasonality in Antarctic and South African Waters
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Little is known of the movements and seasonal occurrence of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) of South Africa and the Antarctic, populations once brought to near extinction by historic commercial whaling.
Fannie W. Shabangu +2 more
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Synchronous seasonal change in fin whale song in the North Pacific. [PDF]
, 2014 Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) song consists of down-swept pulses arranged into stereotypic sequences that can be characterized according to the interval between successive pulses. As in blue (B. musculus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae),
Bayless, Alexandra R +3 more
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Enhancing AIS to Improve Whale-Ship Collision Avoidance and Maritime Security [PDF]
, 2009 Whale-ship strikes are of growing worldwide concern due to the steady growth of commercial shipping. Improving the current situation involves the creation of a communication capability allowing whale position information to be estimated and exchanged ...
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Vessel strike and entanglement in fishing gear are global threats to large whales. United States management actions to reduce human-induced serious injury and mortality to large whales have been inadequate, partially due to static, spatial protection ...
Tammy L. Silva +14 more
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The role of sand lances (Ammodytes sp.) in the Northwest Atlantic ecosystem: a synthesis of current knowledge with implications for conservation and management [PDF]
, 2020 © The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Staudinger, M. D., Goyert, H., Suca, J. J., Coleman, K., Welch, L., Llopiz, J.
Altman, Irit +23 more
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Genetic tagging of humpback whales
Nature, 1997 The ability to recognize individual animals has substantially increased our knowledge of the biology and behaviour of many taxa. However, not all species lend themselves to this approach, either because of insufficient phenotypic variation or because tag attachment is not feasible.
Palsboll, PJ +18 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Understanding how individual animals modulate their behaviour and movement patterns in response to environmental variability plays a central role in behavioural ecology.
Emma F. Vogel +8 more
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NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2009 The abundances of large whale species are presented for the northeast Atlantic from near-complete survey coverage in 1995 and from multiple partial-area surveys during 1996-2001.
Nils Øien
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