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How large is the world's largest fish? Measuring whale sharks Rhincodon typus with laser photogrammetry [PDF]
Christoph A. Rohner+4 more
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Whale shark residency and small-scale movements around oil and gas platforms in Qatar
Whale sharks seasonally aggregate near oil and gas platforms in Qatar to feed on fish spawn, creating one of the world’s largest aggregations of the species.
Steffen S. Bach+7 more
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The Grice Is Right: Grice's Non‐Cooperation Problem and the Structure of Conversation
ABSTRACT H. P. Grice seemed to rest his theory of conversational implicature on the assumption that speakers aim to cooperatively exchange information with each other. In the real world, speakers often don't. Does one of the most influential theories in 20th‐century philosophy of language rest on a mistake? Yes—but not in the way that philosophers have
Sam Berstler
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Microplastics in fecal samples of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and from surface water in the Philippines [PDF]
Mila Mi Hua Yong+8 more
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ABSTRACT Contemporary ecocriticism and the American Gothic tradition share an investment in the psychic repression of terrors lurking just beyond the articulable. Amitav Ghosh's assertion that the history of fossil fuels is ‘a matter of embarrassment verging on the unspeakable’ and Timothy Morton's conception of ecocatastrophe as ‘an uncanny entity ...
Megan Cole
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Continuity in morphological disparity in tropical reef fishes across evolutionary scales
Tropical reef fishes exhibit a large disparity of organismal morphologies contributing to their astonishing biodiversity. Morphological disparity, scaling from differences among individuals within populations to differences among species, is governed by ...
Giulia Francesca Azzurra Donati+10 more
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Regional movements of satellite‐tagged whale sharks Rhincodon typus in the Gulf of Aden [PDF]
Samantha Andrzejaczek+4 more
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ABSTRACT Individual identification of fish within the same species is one of the most crucial and frequently performed tasks in aquaculture research, and it is also widely used in aquaculture production. Fish sampling, treating, welfare, and disease state estimation are increasingly turning from group‐based to individualized.
Mohammad Mehdi Ziaei+2 more
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Our literature search was terminated in October 1980. The genera Rhiniodon, Rhincodon, Rhineodon and Rhinodon have been used over time. The current accepted genus is Rhincodon. Many of the references are entirely derivative, repeating or, occasionally, assembling previous accounts. It is our hope to provide the seeker after specific infomation with the
Wolfson, Fay Henry+1 more
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Strategies, costs and counter‐strategies to sexual coercion
ABSTRACT Sexual conflict, the conflict between the evolutionary interests of females and males over mating, occasionally results in the evolution of traits favourable for one sex and adverse for the other. In this context, males can use sexual coercion to increase their mating success, at the expense of their female targets' mate choice.
Nikolaos Smit
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