Social survival: Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) use social structure to partition ecological niches within proposed critical habitat. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Wray J, Keen E, O'Mahony ÉN.
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New Records of a Stranding Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Argentine Sea and Notes on its Epibionts. [PDF]
, 2014 Se analizó el caso de una ballena jorobada (Megaptera novaeangliae) varada en Playa Baterías (38°58?60?S, 61°48?0?O), provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Angeletti, Sabrina +2 more
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Endoparasitic Insights of Free-Living Fin (Balaenoptera physalus), Humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) and North Atlantic Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis) from Eastern Canadian Waters. [PDF]
Acta Parasitol, 2021 Kleinertz S +4 more
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Solitary humpback whales manufacture bubble-nets as tools to increase prey intake
Royal Society Open ScienceSeveral animal species use tools for foraging; however, very few manufacture and/or modify those tools. Humpback whales, which manufacture bubble-net tools while foraging, are among these rare species.
A. Szabo +9 more
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Quantifying vocal response in experimental playbacks to Risso's dolphins [PDF]
, 2014 In a world of constant technological development and expansion into the marine environment, the marine soundscape is constantly changing. With the addition of anthropogenic sources from naval sonar to seismic survey vessels over the past century, the ...
Boucher, Aimee
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Sightings of humpback whales on the Vitória-Trindade chain and around Trindade Island, Brazil
Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 2012 Salvatore Siciliano +4 more
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Communications BiologyAudiograms are available for multiple species of odontocetes (toothed whales). However, there are no empirically measured audiograms for any mysticete (baleen whale) meaning their hearing sensitivity is inferred.
Rebecca A. Dunlop +2 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2008 Migrating humpback whales from northern and southern feeding grounds come to the tropical waters near Osa Peninsula, Pacific of Costa Rica, to reproduce and raise their calves.
L Oviedo, M Solís
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Biodiversity of the Saba Bank supports status of Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) [PDF]
This report contains a study regarding the biodiversity of the Saba Bank, one of the three largest atolls in the world. All scientific and anecdotic evidence suggests that the area is a hot spot of biodiversity and one of the few areas in the Caribbean ...
Meesters, H.W.G.
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Species occurrence of cetaceans in Guinea, including humpback whales with southern hemisphere seasonality [PDF]
, 2011 An initial inventory of the dolphins and whales occurring in Guinea's coastal waters is documented primarily from specimens and photographic evidence obtained from strandings and by-catches.
Bah, S.S. +6 more
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