baleen whales
Effects of natural iron fertilisation by baleen whales and Antarctic krill on the Southern Ocean carbon cycle
... the whales as they are consumed. Baleen whales spend between 4 – 6 months a year feeding in the Southern ...growing whales, pregnant or injured whales. However, as adult whales ...
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Modeling distribution and abundance of Antarctic baleen whales using ships of opportunity
... to whales, such as temperature, ice cover, and prey ...why whales are found where they are, or at least provide testable hypotheses about ...for baleen whales, whose blows are detectable on ...
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Using accelerometers to determine the calling behavior of tagged baleen whales
... sound-producing whales over relatively large spatial scales (Soule and Wilcock, 2013; Stanistreet et ...analyzing baleen whale sound production when conspecifics are present because tagged whale sounds ...
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Distribution, abundance, and feeding ecology of baleen whales in Icelandic waters: have recent environmental changes had an effect?
... The North Atlantic Sightings Surveys (NASS and TNASS) con- stitute the largest series of cetacean surveys conducted to date in both spatial and temporal extent (Pike, 2009). These multi- national surveys have covered ...
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North Pacific Baleen Whales as a Potential Source of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Diet of the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Arctic Coasts
... gray whales is considered to be independent, it is possible that they can mix and interbreed with the eastern ...gray whales between the Western and Eastern Pacific Oceans ...gray whales in Piltun ...
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How do baleen whales stow their filter? A comparative biomechanical analysis of baleen bending
... their baleen?). However, it is clear that baleen flexibility varies by location according to the multifactorial variables outlined above (and perhaps ...suggest baleen plates bend mostly evenly along ...
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Testing tag attachments to increase the attachment duration of archival tags on baleen whales
... Photographs of each animal and tag were obtained with an EOS 7D digital single-lens reflex camera and 70–200- mm telephoto zoom lens (Canon; Melville, NY, USA). Fluke and dorsal photographs were used for follow-up ...
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An analysis of New Zealand whale strandings
... 3 To determine whether the main whale groups sperm whales, offshore delphinids, inshore delphinids, beaked whales and baleen whales have herd stranding and single stranding hotspots at t[r] ...
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The biology of South African Bryde's whales
... Bryde’s whales than for larger, longer lived baleen whales for which survival rates are known ...toothed whales); a shortage of food for even one or two days can be catastrophic to their ...
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Code of Practice for dwarf minke whale interactions in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
... all baleen whales (Arnold, Birtles, Dunstan, Lukoschek & Matthews, 2005) and that individual whales are returning to the same Reef location in many subsequent years (Birtles, Arnold & ...
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Modeling the spatial and temporal dynamics of foraging movements of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Western Antarctic Peninsula
... to baleen whales (including humpback, minke whales - Balaenoptera bonaerensis, and fin whales - Balaenoptera physalus), several penguin, seabird and seal species acquire the vast majority of ...
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Adapting to a warmer ocean – seasonal shift of baleen whale movements over three decades
... For baleen whales, gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) calls have been recorded in the winter off Alaska, indicating that some individuals may have ceased to migrate annually ...leen whales feed only ...
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Underwater ambient noise in a baleen whale migratory habitat off the Azores
... sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) en route to summering grounds in northern Atlantic ...displace whales or interfere with foraging behavior, impacting energy intake during a critical stage of their annual ...
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Sound production and associated behavior of tagged fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the Southern California Bight
... sounds baleen whales produce are some of the loudest in the ocean, and their low fre- quencies travel long distances [7], which makes PAM an appropriate tool for monitoring distributions of whales ...
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New determination of prey and parasite species for northern Indian Ocean Blue Whales
... blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean (Measures, ...large baleen whales (Baylis, ...large whales become infected either by the oral uptake of Bolbosoma-infected euphausiid species, or by ...
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The evolution of foraging capacity and gigantism in cetaceans
... toothed whales and baleen whales is generally many orders of magnitude larger than their prey (Domenici, 2001; Webb and De Buffrénil, 1990), with some exceptions in specific populations of ...
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Structure and optics of the anterior segment of the cetacean eye : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy at Massey University
... Corneal and lens sizes were especially large in the baleen whales , and particularly small in the sperm whale.. The uveal tract was found to be very vascular when compared to other speci[r] ...
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Cultural turnover among Galápagos sperm whales
... sperm whales off Galápagos ...sperm whales from different clans tend to move and forage differently ...of whales from particular clans may relocate, moving to areas where their foraging strategies ...
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Dwarf minke whales in the northern Great Barrier Reef and implications for the sustainable management of the swim-with whales industry
... of whales using a Sony Cybershot digital camera in 2006, a Canon G7 in 2007 and 2008 and a Canon G9 in ...individual whales on underwater paper in order to separate out individuals and their individual ...
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Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism?
... killer whales and humpback whales regularly approached each other but for entirely different ...Killer whales that approached humpbacks were almost exclusively mammal-eating forms ...killer ...
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