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Sightings and Satellite Tracking of a Blue/Fin Whale Hybrid in its Wintering and Summering Ranges in the Eastern North Pacific

We report 20 photo-documented sightings of a blue/fin whale hybrid between 2004 and 2020, in its wintering and summering ranges

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Isotope-Based Inferences of the Seasonal Foraging and Migratory Strategies of Blue Whales in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Migratory marine megafauna generally move vast distances between productive foraging grounds and environmentally stable breeding grounds, but characterizing how they

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Assessment of Wound Healing of Tagged Gray (Eschrichtius robustus) and Blue (Balaenoptera musculus) Whales in the Eastern North Pacific Using Long-Term Series of Photographs

Tags have been used to examine migration routes and habitat use of large whales for >40 yr, however, evaluation of

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Movements of North Pacific Blue Whales During the Feeding Season off Southern California and Southern Fall Migration

The satellite-acquired locations of 10 blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) tagged off southern California with Argos radio tags were used to

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Blue Whale Visual and Acoustic Encounter Rates in the Southern California Bight

The relationship between blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) visual and acoustic encounter rates was quantitatively evaluated using hourly counts of detected

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Abundance of Blue and Humpback Whales in the Eastern North Pacific Estimated by Capture-Recapture and Line-Transect Methods

We estimated humpback and blue whale abundance from 1991 to 1997 off the west coast of the U.S. and Mexico

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Insights into the Population Structure of Blue Whales in the Eastern North Pacific from Recent Sightings and Photographic Identifications

Blue whales were widely distributed in the North Pacific prior to the primary period of modern commercial whaling in the

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Association Between Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Mortality and Ship Strikes Along the California Coast

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are distributed worldwide, and although severely depleted by commercial whaling, their abundance off the California coast

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