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On the rise: Climate change in New Zealand will cause sperm and blue whales to seek higher latitudes

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Climate impacts affect marine ecosystems worldwide with island nations such as New Zealand being extremely vulnerable because of their socio-economic and cultural dependence on the marine and costal environment.
Katharina J. Peters, Karen A. Stockin, Frédérik Saltré   +2 more
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Multi‐Platform Deployments of Low‐Cost Devices for Cetacean Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Recent advances in affordable, user‐friendly devices offer new opportunities to overcome cost constraints of underwater passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and expand acoustic data collection. In this study, we deployed low‐cost acoustic recorders and underwater cameras across a range of platforms in the Western Mediterranean, including fishing gear ...
Greta Jankauskaite, François Poisson, Irati Abascal, Javier Menéndez‐Blázquez, Clara Cánovas Pérez, Sofia Conti, Ricardo Sagarminaga, Juan Antonio Raga, David March   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The first cetacean from the early Oligocene of the SW German Mainz Basin: a probable cheek tooth of a mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea)

PalZ
Despite two centuries of fossils collecting, no cetacean remains from the Oligocene marine deposits of the Mainz Basin (western Germany) have ever been reported.
Oliver Hampe, Fritz von der Hocht
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Deep-sea and pelagic rod visual pigments identified in the mysticete whales

, 2012
Our current understanding of the spectral sensitivities of the mysticete whale rod-based visual pigments is based on two species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) and the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) possessing absorbance maxima ...
Velasquez, Stephani, Fasick, Jeffry I., Cronin, Thomas W., Bischoff, Nicole, Nickle, Benjamin   +4 more
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Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) Mortality along the Italian Coast between 1624 and 2021

Animals, 2022
The Mediterranean Sea hosts a population of fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), the only species of Mysticete regularly occurring in the basin. Observed and inferred mortality suggests that the population is likely declining.
Valerio Manfrini, Nino Pierantonio, Alessandro Giuliani, Federico De Pascalis, Nicola Maio, Annalaura Mancia   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling Skin Mark Temporal Variations to Estimate the Sex of Delphinids with Low Sexual Dimorphism: Implications for Management and Conservation

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This work aimed to apply the principles of skin mark analysis to a cetacean species to build a sex‐discrimination model exclusively based on photographic material. Relevant differences between sexes emerged in markings, with males presenting more social, aggression‐related, and fishing‐related marks overall, and a stronger tendency of mark accumulation
Alice Turchi, Giulia Pedrazzi, Alex Mattiussi, Maria S. Labriola, Daniele Petrone, Sofia Rinalduzzi, Giancarlo Giacomini, Daniela Silvia Pace   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing the Effects of Noise From Ship Traffic, Seismic Surveying and Construction on Marine Mammals in Antarctica

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
The Protocol on Environmental Protection of the Antarctic Treaty stipulates that the protection of the Antarctic environment and associated ecosystems be fundamentally considered in the planning and conducting of all activities in the Antarctic Treaty ...
Christine Erbe, Michael Dähne, Jonathan Gordon, Heike Herata, Dorian S. Houser, Sven Koschinski, Russell Leaper, Robert McCauley, Brian Miller, Mirjam Müller, Anita Murray, Julie N. Oswald, Amy R. Scholik-Schlomer, Max Schuster, Ilse C. Van Opzeeland, Ilse C. Van Opzeeland, Vincent M. Janik   +16 more
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Sensory Biology of the Franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei, Pontoporiidae, Cetartiodactyla): Ontogenetic Modifications of Vibrissae and Vibrissal Crypts

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
The transition of cetaceans from a terrestrial to an aquatic environment involved a crucial sensory adaptation to environments with limited visibility. Vibrissae, important mechanoreceptors, undergo an ontogenetic transformation in odontocetes. This research describes the histomorphology of vibrissae and crypts at different developmental stages ...
Cecilia Mariana Krmpotic, Cleopatra Mara Loza, Alejo Carlos Scarano, Pedro Fernando Andrés‐Laube, Francisco Acuña, Juan Pablo Loureiro, Carolina Natalia Zanuzzi, Nicolás Nahuel Castro, María Teresa Pombo, Lorenzo von Fersen, Claudio Gustavo Barbeito   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic filtration in baleen whales: recent discoveries and emerging trends

Frontiers in Marine Science
Recent findings have greatly improved our understanding of mysticete oral filtration, and have upended the traditional view of baleen filtration as a simple process.
Alexander J. Werth, Jean Potvin
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THE OLDEST ESCHRICHTIID MYSTICETE AND A NEW MORPHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF ESCHRICHTIIDAE (GRAY WHALES)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2006
A close inspection of the dentary of Eschrichtius robustus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Eschrichtiidae) revealed a peculiar organization of the coronoid region.
MICHELANGELO BISCONTI, ANGELO VAROLA
doaj   +1 more source