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High Arctic “hotspots” for sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off western and northern Svalbard, Norway, revealed by multi-year Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM)

Scientific Reports
Despite the well-documented, broad global distribution of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus), their distributional patterns remain poorly known in Arctic regions, where year-round monitoring is challenging. Adult male sperm whales are known to migrate
Viivi Pöyhönen, Karolin Thomisch, Kit M. Kovacs, Christian Lydersen, Heidi Ahonen   +4 more
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Vertebral bone microarchitecture and osteocyte characteristics of three toothed whale species with varying diving behaviour

Scientific Reports, 2017
Although vertebral bone microarchitecture has been studied in various tetrapods, limited quantitative data are available on the structural and compositional changes of vertebrae in marine mammals. Whales exhibit exceptional swimming and diving behaviour,
Tim Rolvien, Michael Hahn, Ursula Siebert, Klaus Püschel, Hans-Joachim Wilke, Björn Busse, Michael Amling, Ralf Oheim   +7 more
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No evidence for recovery in the population of sperm whale bulls off Western Australia, 30 years post-whaling

Endangered Species Research, 2014
The global sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus population has been protected from large-scale commercial whaling for >25 yr, yet there is no clear evidence of recovery in any heavily exploited stock.
G Carroll, S Hedley, J Bannister, P Ensor, R Harcourt   +4 more
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Regular Presence of Harbor Porpoises in the Northern Alborán Sea

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 41, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT The harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the Atlantic waters of Spain and Portugal are a genetically differentiated population from the rest of the North Atlantic. They are rarely seen on the southern Atlantic coast of Spain and are thought to be extinct in the Mediterranean Sea, with scattered sightings and strandings recorded along the ...
Samantha Blakeman, Juan Manuel Salazar, Noelia Villalba, Antonio Segura, Elena Papale, Mel Cosentino   +5 more
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Purple Sea directed by Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed, LightDox 2020, 67 minutes

Visual Anthropology Review, EarlyView.
Alexander L. Fattal
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Distribution and relative abundance of large whales in a former whaling ground off eastern South America

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2010
Ship-based sighting surveys for cetaceans were conducted in the former whaling ground off the northeastern coast of Brazil. The cruises took place in winter and spring of 1998-2001 with the objectives of investigating current distribution and abundance ...
Artur Andriolo, Jesuina M. da Rocha, Alexandre N. Zerbini, Paulo C. Simões-Lopes, Ignacio B. Moreno, Alineide Lucena, Daniel Danilewicz, Manuela Bassoi   +7 more
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Click-click, who’s there? Acoustically derived estimates of sperm whale size distribution off western Ireland

Frontiers in Marine Science
Understanding the structure of populations is a critical element to the establishment of management and conservation measures. Sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus are characterised by a demographic spatial segregation, associated with a conspicuous ...
Cynthia Barile, Simon Berrow, Simon Berrow, Joanne O’Brien   +3 more
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Marine mammals of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and Salas y Gómez Island (Motu Motiro Hiva), Chile: a review and new records

Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2014
The Chilean oceanic islands Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and Salas y Gómez Island (Motu Motiro Hiva) have received little attention with regards to basic marine mammal investigations.
Rodrigo Hucke-Gaete, Anelio Aguayo-Lobo, Sebastián Yancovic-Pakarati, Marcelo Flores   +3 more
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Examination of some components of cephalopod and sperm-whale liver oils by the chromatographic method [PDF]

, 1953
R. M. Brachi
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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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