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Beaked Whales and El Niño: Evidence for ENSO Effects on Blainville’s Beaked and Goose-Beaked Whale Space Use in Hawaiian Waters

Large-scale climatic phenomena, like the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, influence marine systems across the Pacific and beyond. The effects

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False Killer Whales and Fisheries in Hawaiian Waters: Evidence from Mouthline and Dorsal Fin Injuries Reveal Ongoing and Repeated Interactions

Monitoring bycatch in fisheries is essential for effective conservation and fisheries sustainability. False killer whales Pseudorca crassidens in Hawaiian waters are known

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Ship Collision Risk Threatens Whales Across the World’s Oceans

After the near-complete cessation of commercial whaling, ship collisions have emerged as a primary threat to large whales, but knowledge

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Received Level Estimation, Behavioral Response, and Diel Behavioral Analyses for Delphinids Tagged at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in 2021-2022

This report summarizes the results of satellite-tagging efforts conducted prior to Submarine Command Course (SCC) training events from August 2021

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Incorporating Telemetry Information into Capture-Recapture Analyses Improves Precision and Accuracy of Abundance Estimates Given Spatiotemporally Biased Recapture Effort

Natural populations that are rare, cryptic or inaccessible provide a monumental challenge to monitoring, as adequate data are extremely difficult

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Small-Boat Surveys and Satellite Tagging of Cetaceans on the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kaua’i, in February 2024

As part of the long-term United States (U.S.) Navy-funded Marine Species Monitoring Program, from 11-19 February 2024, Cascadia Research Collective

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Utilizing Long-Term Opportunistic Sightings Records to Document Spatio-Temporal Shifts in Mysticete Presence and Use in the Central Salish Sea

The Salish Sea supports several baleen whale species, including humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae), gray (Eschrichtius robustus) and minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). With

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Common Cetacean Species Misidentifications

This errata version corrects a species identification error in the original (removed by the authors and journal) publication, which incorrectly

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Changes in Blue Whale Survival and Abundance in the Gulf of California

Understanding the drivers of population abundance and distribution is fundamental to ecology and key to informing conservation actions, particularly in

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Development of Single-Pin, Un-Barbed, Pole-Tagging of Free-Swimming Dolphins and Sharks with Satellite-Linked Transmitters

Background To tag large marine vertebrates, without the need to catch them, avoiding using barbs for tag retention, and precisely

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