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First sightings of the pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata), one of the world’s rarest delphinids, in the Azores

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
The pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) is among the globally rarest delphinid species, typically occurring in offshore tropical and subtropical waters.
Marc Tolosa   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Den attendance by Arctic foxes experiencing 10 years of increasing tourism

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Wildlife tourism is a growing industry, and an increasing number of people seek to observe and interact with wild animals in their natural surroundings. In Iceland, the native Arctic fox Vulpes lagopus is widespread and has been under heavy hunting pressure for centuries.
Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Propuesta para el manejo sostenible del turismo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article analyzes the humpback whale watching activity in the area of Salinas. It examines the history, current situation and supporting industry.
Chang, José, Zeballos Gando, María M.
core   +1 more source

First Non‐Invasive Monitoring of Fecal Steroids in Greater Caribbean Manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)

open access: yesZoo Biology, EarlyView.
This study established the first fecal hormonal reference values (P4/E2) for the Greater Caribbean manatee. Using non‐invasive ELISA, the authors found no significant differences between mature and immature females, highlighting that long‐term monitoring and ultrasounds are essential to fully understand their complex reproductive cycles.
Vanessa Bermúdez‐Cardona   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is it possible to go whale watching off the coast of Peru?: A case study of humpback whales ¿Es posible hacer turismo de observación de ballenas en la costa de Perú?: Un caso de estudio con ballenas jorobadas

open access: yesLatin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2011
Whale watching is the human activity of encountering cetaceans in their natural habitat for recreational and scientific purposes. Despite the high diversity of cetaceans in Peruvian waters, this activity has yet to be developed.
Aldo S Pacheco   +2 more
doaj  

Enterprise Network Security Using Few‐Shot Meta‐Learning

open access: yesArtificial Intelligence for Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper involves a few‐shot learning study that uses model‐agnostic meta‐learning. A meta‐dataset was curated by combining six benchmark network intrusion detection datasets by parsing network traffic data from PCAP files. An MAML model performs meta‐training, validation and meta‐testing before and after fine‐tuning.
Sushant Jain   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Offshore Migratory Corridors and Aerial Photogrammetric Body Length Comparisons of Southbound Gray Whales, Eschrichtius robustus, in the Southern California Bight, 1988–1990 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Through most of their annual migration, gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus, remain within 10 km of shore, but in the Southern California Bight many individuals migrate much farther from shore.
Show, Ivan T., Sumich, James L.
core  

Financing Marine Conservation: A Menu of Options [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This guide describes over 30 mechanisms for financing the conservation of marine biodiversity, both within and outside of MPAs. Its main purpose is to familiarize conservation professionals i.e., the managers and staff of government conservation agencies,
Barry Spergel, Melissa Moye
core  

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

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

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