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Adaptation of sperm whales to open-boat whalers: rapid social learning on a large scale? [PDF]

Biol Lett, 2021
Whitehead H, Smith TD, Rendell L.
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Productivity in American Whaling: The New Bedford Fleet in the Nineteenth Century [PDF]

From the end of the War of 1812 until the Civil War the New Bedford whaling fleet grew spectacularly; thereafter it declined, equally spectacularly. By the end of the century New Bedford's day was over.
Lance Davis, Robert E. Gallman, Teresa Hutchins   +2 more
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Sperm whales of the Southeast Pacific: Part VII. Reproduction and growth in the female [PDF]

, 2011
This report on the reproduction and growth of the female sperm whale Physeter catodon is Part VII of our work on this whale in the Southeast Pacific. There were 1105 female sperm whales in our sample collected from two whaling stations in Chile and two ...
Clarke, R., Paliza, O., Van Waerebeek, K.   +2 more
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Automatic detection and annotation of eastern Caribbean sperm whale codas

Scientific Reports
A key technology for sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) monitoring is the identification of sperm whale communication signals, known as codas. In this paper we present the first automatic coda detector and annotator. The main innovation in our detector
Guy Gubnitsky, Yaly Mevorach, Shane Gero, David F. Gruber, Roee Diamant   +4 more
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Soundings: the Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. 2006 [PDF]

, 2006
(PDF contains 88 pages.

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Acoustic Tracking of Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Central Mediterranean Sea Using the NEMO-OνDE Deep-Sea Observatory

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Passive acoustic monitoring plays a critical role in the study of marine species, particularly in understanding the behavior of deep-diving endangered species like the Mediterranean sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).
Letizia Stella Di Mauro, Dídac Diego-Tortosa, Virginia Sciacca, Giorgio Riccobene, Salvatore Viola   +4 more
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Soundings: the Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. 2004 [PDF]

, 2004
(PDF contains 92 pages.

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Kin relationships in cultural species of the marine realm: case study of a matrilineal social group of sperm whales off Mauritius island, Indian Ocean. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2021
Sarano F, Girardet J, Sarano V, Vitry H, Preud'homme A, Heuzey R, Garcia-Cegarra AM, Madon B, Delfour F, Glotin H, Adam O, Jung JL.   +11 more
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The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture [PDF]

This paper uses a laboratory experiment to probe the proposition that property emerges anarchically out of social custom. We test the hypothesis that whalers in the 18th and 19th century developed rules of conduct that minimized the sum of the ...
Andrew Smyth, Bart J. Wilson, Karl Schurter, Taylor Jaworski   +3 more
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Establishing death in stranded Odontocetes (toothed whales) using other mammals : a pilot study : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Zoology at Massey University [PDF]

, 2003
The aim of this study was to investigate and evaluate a new method for determining death in stranded odontocetes (toothed whales). The new method was using the pulsations seen in the retinal blood vessels in the place of the heart rate. The retinal blood
Paul, Katherine A
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