Estimating the impact of whaling on global whale-watching [PDF]
Tourism Management, 2009 After the commercial whaling moratorium was enacted in 1986, whale watching became one of the fastest growing tourism industries worldwide. As whaling was regarded as an activity that is incompatible with whale watching, the possible resumption of commercial whaling caused an urgent need to investigate the potential negative effects of whaling on the ...
Hsiao-I Kuo +2 more
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Whale shark economics: a valuation of wildlife tourism in South Ari Atoll, Maldives [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Whale sharks attract large numbers of tourists, divers and snorkelers each year to South Ari Atoll in the Republic of Maldives. Yet without information regarding the use and economic extent of the attraction, it is difficult to prioritize conservation or
Edgar Fernando Cagua +3 more
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Characteristics of Whale Müller Glia in Primary and Immortalized Cultures
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Müller cells are the principal glial cells in the retina and they assume many of the functions carried out by astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and ependymal cells in other regions of the central nervous system.
Xandra Pereiro +8 more
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Immunohistochemical Characterisation of the Whale Retina
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2022 The eye of the largest adult mammal in the world, the whale, offers a unique opportunity to study the evolution of the visual system and its adaptation to aquatic environments.
Noelia Ruzafa +5 more
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Exploring ideas behind the whale images in the Norwegian Rock Art Record
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2022 The paper discusses alternative explanations to hunting perspectives that have represented the most common explanatory framework when prehistoric whale images or other animal species are interpreted and explained within rock art studies.
Trond Klungseth Lødøen
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Visual narratives and the depiction of whaling in north European rock art: the case of the White Sea
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2022 The rock art petroglyps of the White Sea represent possibly the earliest depictions of whaling in the world and allow us to understand the 6,000-years-old relationship between whales and human communities.
Dr Liliana Janik
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Diving behaviour of whale sharks in relation to a predictable food pulse [PDF]
, 2005 We present diving data for four whale sharks in relation to a predictable food pulse (reef fish spawn) and an analysis of the longest continuous fine-resolution diving record for a planktivorous shark.
Callum M Roberts +4 more
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The Predicament of Nature: Keiko the Whale and The Cultural Politics of Whaling in Iceland [PDF]
, 2006 This cultural analysis reconsiders the modernist narrative about the politics of whales and whale hunting in order to explore Icelandic responses to the return of the killer whale Keiko (star of the Free Willy movies) to Icelandic waters in 1998 ...
Brydon, Anne
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IDENTIFICATION OF ANISAKID NEMATODE L3 LARVAE INFECTION ON SKIPJACK TUNA (KATSUWONUS PELAMIS L.) FROM KUPANG WATERS, EAST NUSA TENGGARA OF INDONESIA [PDF]
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2019 The larvae of Anisakis were living parasites and made marine mammals, birds and reptiles the definitive host. Identification of Anisakis larvae using morphological observation methods will be difficult, especially if there are only a few samples that can
Haryadi L. +4 more
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Evaluation of Whale, Fruit Fly and Cuckoo Search Algorithms in Optimizing Multi-Objective Operation of Golestan Dam Reservoir Based on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method [PDF]
مهندسی منابع آب, 2020 In this research, after introducing the Whale, Cuckoo search and fruit fly Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms, their performance individually and compared to each other was evaluated to optimize the Golestan Dam reservoir operation policies with an ...
Alireza Donyaii +2 more
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