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Migration to breeding areas by male sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus from the Northeast Atlantic Arctic [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Mature male sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) primarily inhabit high latitude regions, travelling to tropical/temperate waters for breeding, where females and juveniles reside in cohesive social groups.
Christian Lydersen, Marie-Anne Blanchet, Kit M. Kovacs, Tiu Similä, Carla Freitas, Zoë Morange, Ove M. Pedersen, Emma F. Vogel, Marten Bril, Guttorm Christensen, Audun H. Rikardsen   +10 more
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Spatial and seasonal distribution of American whaling and whales in the age of sail. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
American whalemen sailed out of ports on the east coast of the United States and in California from the 18(th) to early 20(th) centuries, searching for whales throughout the world's oceans.
Tim D Smith, Randall R Reeves, Elizabeth A Josephson, Judith N Lund   +3 more
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Dolphin Morbillivirus Associated with a Mass Stranding of Sperm Whales, Italy. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis, 2017
In September 2014, 7 sperm whales stranded along the Adriatic Italian coastlines. Postmortem investigations on 3 dead females dead and in 1 fetus harbored by the largest one revealed molecular and immunoistochemical evidences of dolphin morbillivirus ...
Mazzariol S, Centelleghe C, Di Provvido A, Di Renzo L, Cardeti G, Cersini A, Fichi G, Petrella A, Di Francesco CE, Mignone W, Casalone C, Di Guardo G.   +11 more
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Decadal Assessment of Sperm Whale Site-Specific Abundance Trends in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Using Passive Acoustic Data

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021
Passive acoustic monitoring has been successfully used to study deep-diving marine mammal populations. To assess regional population trends of sperm whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM), including impacts of the Deepwater Horizon platform oil ...
Kun Li, Natalia A. Sidorovskaia, Thomas Guilment, Tingting Tang, Christopher O. Tiemann   +4 more
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Sperm whales in the waters off China: A glimpse of the past and present

Water Biology and Security, 2023
Spatiotemporal information is crucial for cetacean research and conservation, particularly for wide-ranging and migratory species. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are distributed worldwide in deep oceans; however, little is known about the species ...
Mingming Liu, Mingli Lin, Songhai Li
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Stereotypical diel movement and dive pattern of male sperm whales in a submarine canyon revealed by land-based and bio-logging surveys

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Male sperm whales are under pressure to grow larger in order to increase their mating opportunities, which could lead them to more efficiently forage in high latitude feeding grounds.
Masao Amano, Kagari Aoki, Kagari Aoki, Hayao Kobayashi, Hayao Kobayashi, Shingo Minamikawa, Katsufumi Sato, Tsunemi Kubodera   +7 more
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Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations

Royal Society Open Science, 2022
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is a deep-diving cetacean with a global distribution and a multi-leveled, culturally segregated, social structure.
Felicia Vachon, Taylor A. Hersh, Luke Rendell, Shane Gero, Hal Whitehead   +4 more
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Beached bachelors: An extensive study on the largest recorded sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus mortality event in the North Sea. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Between the 8th January and the 25th February 2016, the largest sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus mortality event ever recorded in the North Sea occurred with 30 sperm whales stranding in five countries within six weeks.
Lonneke L IJsseldijk, Abbo van Neer, Rob Deaville, Lineke Begeman, Marco van de Bildt, Judith M A van den Brand, Andrew Brownlow, Richard Czeck, Willy Dabin, Mariel Ten Doeschate, Vanessa Herder, Helena Herr, Jooske IJzer, Thierry Jauniaux, Lasse Fast Jensen, Paul D Jepson, Wendy Karen Jo, Jan Lakemeyer, Kristina Lehnert, Mardik F Leopold, Albert Osterhaus, Matthew W Perkins, Uwe Piatkowski, Ellen Prenger-Berninghoff, Ralf Pund, Peter Wohlsein, Andrea Gröne, Ursula Siebert   +27 more
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Summer distribution of the Mediterranean sperm whale: insights from the acoustic Accobams survey initiative

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
The Mediterranean sperm whale population, Physeter macrocephalus, is listed as endangered due to population decline caused by human activities. To mitigate the impact of these activities, accurate knowledge of their distribution and abundance is crucial.
Clara Lerebourg, Oliver Boisseau, Vincent Ridoux, Vincent Ridoux, Auriane Virgili   +4 more
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Wild whale faecal samples as a proxy of anthropogenic impact

Scientific Reports, 2021
The occurrence of protozoan parasite, bacterial communities, organic pollutants and heavy metals was investigated in free-ranging species of fin (Balaenoptera physalus, n. 2) and sperm (Physeter macrocephalus, n.
Marianna Marangi, Sabina Airoldi, Luciano Beneduce, Claudio Zaccone   +3 more
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