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Utilizing Exhaled Breath and Skin Microbiomes in Assessments of At‐Risk Killer Whales (Orcinus orca)

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT For at‐risk populations of killer whales (Orcinus orca), biological samples can offer information about individual animal status. We hypothesized that low‐yield samples could provide sufficient material for microbiome analysis. We collected and analyzed, with amplicon metabarcoding, breath samples from managed care and free‐ranging killer ...
Linda D. Rhodes, Hendrik H. Nollens, Sheila J. Thornton, Candice K. Emmons, James Sheppard, Michael S. Felice, Todd R. Robeck, M. Bradley Hanson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecology and Seasonal Habitat Use of Northern Bottlenose and Sowerby's Beaked Whales in the Azores

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Beaked whales are among the least known cetaceans, yet they are regularly observed in the Azores, a region recognized as a hotspot for deep‐diving species. In this study, we analyzed opportunistic sightings collected during 1492 whale‐watching trips, including 149 beaked whale encounters, of which 89 were Sowerby's (Mesoplodon bidens) and 31 ...
Rui Peres dos Santos, Richard Sears, Ramiro Magno, Rita Castilho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

First documented movement of a humpback whale between the Cape Verde Islands and West Greenland

Ecology and Evolution
The 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, Virginie Wyss, Beatrice Jann, Frederick W. Wenzel, Guðjón Már Sigurðsson, Malene Simon, Rikke Guldborg Hansen, Lindsey S. Jones   +7 more
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On the presence of humpback whales in the Persian Gulf: rare or rarely documented? Report of the IWC Scientific Committee Meeting SC/67A/CMP/14, Bled, Slovenia, May 2017 [PDF]

, 2017
We critically review the evidence for humpback whale presence in the Persian Gulf. Five specimen records, assumed to belong to the endangered Arabian Sea population, are confirmed in the period 1883- 2017: Bassore Bay, Iraq; Doha, Qatar; Kuwait Inner ...
Delshab, H., Hashem Dakhteh, S.M., Moazeni, M., Mohsenian, N., Moshiri, H., Ranjbar, S., Van Waerebeek, K.   +6 more
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Direct numerical simulations of the flow around wings with spanwise waviness at a very low Reynolds number [PDF]

, 2017
Inspired by the pectoral flippers of the humpback whale, the use of spanwise waviness in the leading edge has been considered in the literature as a possible way of improving the aerodynamic performance of wings.
Meneghini, JR, Serson, D, Sherwin, SJ
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Paternity of Western Gray Whales Feeding Off Sakhalin Island, Russia

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT While understanding mating systems can provide critical insight into a population's long‐term persistence and resilience, such information remains limited for most baleen whales. However, extensive research on the western gray whales that feed off Sakhalin Island, Russia, led to the collection of biopsy samples from 75% of the 207 whales photo‐
Aimée R. Lang, Alexander. M. Burdin, Kelly M. Robertson, Olga Sychenko, Amanda L. Bradford, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Victoria L. Pease, Frederick I. Archer, David W. Weller   +8 more
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Automatic prosodic clustering of humpback whales song

, 2008
6pWe automatically segmented a humpback whale song using the Roger Payne's principle of sound unit and we patterned and automatically classified intonations of sound units thanks to an unsupervised algorithm to describe recurrent patterns.
Adam, Olivier, Bergounioux, Maïtine, Glotin, Hervé, Mayer, François-Xavier, Picot, Gautier   +4 more
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A Multi‐Taxa Approach to Estuarine Biomonitoring: Assessing Vertebrate Biodiversity and Ecological Continuity Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding in the Rance River (Brittany, France)

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
We applied eDNA metabarcoding to assess vertebrate diversity in the Rance Estuary, France, across five stations spanning marine to freshwater environments, including areas upstream and downstream of a tidal power plant dam. A total of 124 vertebrate MOTUs were detected, with community composition reflecting the estuarine gradient and species turnover ...
Rachel Haderlé, Alexandre Carpentier, Gaël Kervarec, Anne Lizé, Nils Teichert, Visotheary Ung, Jean‐Luc Jung   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

El impacto de terremotos al comportamiento acústico de ballenas jorobadas, Megaptera novaeangliae, en la Costa ecuatoriana [PDF]

, 2017
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), visiting the coast of Ecuador from July to October to reproduce, have a very distinctive feature, their songs.
Suárez Buitrón, Ana Paula
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A 26‐Year Record of Seasonality and Interannual Variability in Marine Mammal Sightings From Northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctica

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
Whales and seals are an important and often conspicuous component of the Southern Ocean pelagic fauna but data from winter are very sparse. Six species remain in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, year‐round while three are seasonal visitors. Humpback Whales are summer visitors and show a long‐term increase in sighting frequency together with an earlier ...
Andrew Clarke, Alysa Fisher, Hugh J. Venables, Lucy Allen, Richard G. Davies   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source