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Scaling of Maneuvering Performance in Baleen Whales: Larger Whales Outperform Expectations

Despite their enormous size, whales make their living as voracious predators. To catch their much smaller, more maneuverable prey, they

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Cetacean Strandings in the US Pacific Northwest 2000-2019 Reveal Potential Linkages to Oceanographic Variability

Studying patterns in marine mammal stranding cases can provide insight into changes in population health, abundance, and distribution. Cetaceans along

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Integrating Remote Sensing Methods During Controlled Exposure Experiments to Quantify Group Responses of Dolphins to Navy Sonar

Human noise can be harmful to sound-centric marine mammals. Significant research has focused on characterizing behavioral responses of protected cetacean

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Oceanographic Barriers, Divergence, and Admixture: Phylogeography and Taxonomy of Two Putative Subspecies of Short-Finned Pilot Whale

Genomic phylogeography plays an important role in describing evolutionary processes and their geographic, ecological, or cultural drivers. These drivers are

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Familial Social Structure and Socially Driven Genetic Differentiation in Hawaiian Short-Finned Pilot Whales

Social structure can have a significant impact on divergence and evolution within species, especially in the marine environment, which has

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Cetacean Distribution and Abundance in Relation to Oceanographic Domains on the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf in June and July of 2002, 2008, and 2010

As part of the Bering Sea Project, cetacean surveys were conducted to describe distribution and estimate abundance on the eastern

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Nuclear and Mitochondrial Patterns of Population Structure in North Pacific False Killer Whales (Pseudorca crassidens)

False killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) are large delphinids typically found in deep water far offshore. However, in the Hawaiian Archipelago,

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