Muscle serves a wide variety of mechanical functions during animal feeding and locomotion, but the performance of this tissue is
Beaked whales are hypothesized to be particularly sensitive to anthropogenic noise, based on previous strandings and limited experimental and observational
Beaked whales are diverse and species rich taxa. They spend the vast majority of their time submerged, regularly diving to
Knowledge of reproduction in baleen whales such as the blue whale Balaenoptera musculus is still limited. Here, we combined the
As high trophic level, non-migratory marine mammals, harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) inhabiting the Strait of Georgia, Juan de Fuca Strait
Marine spatial planning provides a comprehensive framework for managing multiple uses of the marine environment and has the potential to
North Atlantic humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)) migrate from high-latitude summer feeding grounds to low-latitude winter breeding grounds along
Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) are the most common and widely distributed pinniped in Washington State coastal waters. Serving as sentinels
Mid-frequency military (1–10 kHz) sonars have been associated with lethal mass strandings of deep-diving toothed whales, but the effects on
For many marine organisms, especially large whales that cannot be studied in laboratory settings, our ability to obtain basic behavioral