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History and description of the skeleton of a new sperm whale, lately set up in the Australian Museum by William S. Wall, Curator; together with some account of a new genus of sperm whales called Euphysetes [Second reprint, 1890] [PDF]

, 1890
W. S. Wall
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Whale carcass scavenging by sharks

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Sharks are well known to scavenge whale carcasses, but observations are rare. Here we (1) describe new observations of whale carcass scavenging behaviour by white (Carcharodon carcharias) and tiger (Galeocerdo cuvier) sharks, and (2) review the ...
James P. Tucker, Brett Vercoe, Isaac R. Santos, Mark Dujmovic, Paul A. Butcher   +4 more
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Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the eastern North Pacific and adjacent Arctic waters: a guide to their identification [PDF]

, 1982
This is an identification guide for cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), that was designed to assist laymen in identifying cetaceans encountered in eastern North Pacific and Arctic waters.
Evans, William E., Hobbs, Larry, Leatherwood, Stephen, Perrin, William F., Reeves, Randall R.   +4 more
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Morphological and morphometric sperm analysis of dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima)

Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences
Nowadays, an increase in the number of marine species at risk of extinction has been observed. Therefore, studies on the reproductive characteristics of these animals are essential.
Giovana Alcantara Garcia, Daniel de Souza Ramos Angrimani, Jociery Einhardt Vergara Parente, Juliana Plácido Guimarães   +3 more
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Soundings: the Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. 2013 [PDF]

, 2013
Issues January - November/December 2013.

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Predictive model of sperm whale prey capture attempts from time-depth data. [PDF]

Mov Ecol, 2023
Pérez-Jorge S, Oliveira C, Rivas EI, Prieto R, Cascão I, Wensveen PJ, Miller PJO, Silva MA.   +7 more
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On a sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus washed ashore at Irumeni (Palk Bay) near Mandapam [PDF]

, 2002
A female sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus (Fig. 1) measuring 4 m, weighing 1.5 t was washed ashore in dead condition at Irumeni (Palk Bay) near Mandapam on 10-11- 2000. The length at birth of a sperm whale is about 4 meters, hence it mav be in-
Gandhi, V, Kasinathan, C
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Solvent-induced organization: A physical model of folding myoglobin

, 1994
The essential features of the in vitro refolding of myoglobin are expressed in a solvable physical model. Alpha helices are taken as the fundamental collective coordinates of the system, while the refolding is assumed to be mainly driven by solvent ...
Acampora, Allen, Anfinsen, Arnold, Arutyunyan, Bashford, Ben-Naim, Callaway, Cantor, Chothia, Christenson, Claesson, Cohen, Creighton, David J. E. Callaway, Dickerson, Dill, Eisenberg, Evans, Franks, Gardiner, Griko, Gruenewald, Hughson, Hughson, Hughson, Israelachvili, Jaenicke, Jennings, Jones, Jorgensen, Kuczera, Kuwajima, Levinthal, Levitt, Levitt, Levitt, McCammon, Nicholls, Nishikawa, Nozaki, Pangali, Pangali, Podgornik, Potter, Pratt, Privalov, Ptitsyn, Ptitsyn, Puett, Rao, Saito, Shaknovich, Sharp, Shen, Shin, Shin, Smith, Stillinger, Stouten, Tanford, Waltho, Warshel, Watson, Wax, Wolfenden, Zimmerman   +66 more
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First Photo-Identification Study of the Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Aeolian Archipelago and the Northern Coast of Sicily (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

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(1) While photo-identification has been used to study sperm whales worldwide, no long-term photo-id studies are available from the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea for the Mediterranean endangered population.
Agata Irene Di Paola, Michelle Gelippi, Monica Francesca Blasi   +2 more
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Sperm whale acoustic abundance and dive behaviour in the western North Atlantic. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Westell A, Sakai T, Valtierra R, Van Parijs SM, Cholewiak D, DeAngelis A.   +5 more
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