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Leonardo and the Whale

open access: yes, 2019
Around 1480, when he was 28 years old, Leonardo da Vinci recorded what may have been a seminal event in his life. In writing of his travels to view nature he recounted an experience in a cave in the Tuscan countryside: Having wandered for some distance ...
Etheridge, Kay
core  

Ship-based RPA operations for cetacean research in Antarctica: progress, opportunities and challenges

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
Data collection facilitated by remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) has proven to be revolutionary in many disciplines including for research in extreme environments.
Virginia Andrews-Goff   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bile Acids of the Whale [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1948
G. A. D. Haslewood, Veryan M. Wootton
openalex   +1 more source

Facilitating macrosystem biology with organismal‐scale airborne remote sensing: Challenges and opportunities

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Emergent ecosystem properties, such as population and trait distributions, biodiversity and energy and water fluxes, occur because of the dynamic interactions of individuals in their environment.
Sarah J. Graves   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chaotic whale optimization algorithm

open access: yesJournal of Computational Design and Engineering, 2018
G. Kaur, Sankalap Arora
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Intraguild predation in sympatric seals and the effect on a declining population

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study examined the prevalence, spatial extent, and temporal trends of grey seal intraguild predation (IGP). We demonstrated the utility of integrating disparate datasets to address conservation challenges and highlighted how IGP, while seemingly rare, can hold sympatric species in a predator‐pit and in small populations may contribute to declines.
Izzy Langley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life unsettled: debating abortion in the US Supreme Court and the Irish Citizens’ Assembly La vie en question : débats autour de l'avortement à la Cour suprême des États‐Unis et dans l'Assemblée citoyenne irlandaise

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines polyvalent uses of the word ‘life’ in the debate about abortion in the United States compared with Ireland. It takes two axiomatically liberal events as its ethnographic site of comparison: the US Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v.
Natalie Morningstar
wiley   +1 more source

Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘social model of disability’ to show that the disabling capacities of impairments varied depending on wider social structures and beliefs, and on each
Emily Cock
wiley   +1 more source

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