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Accounting for Sampling Bias Reveals a Decline in Abundance of Endangered False Killer Whales in the Main Hawaiian Islands

We estimated abundance of the endangered main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) insular population of false killer whales Pseudorca crassidens from 1999-2022 using a

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Always on the Move: The Complex Ecology of False Killer Whales

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: False Killer Whale Populations Are At Risk

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False Killer Whales Are Dolphin Predators? Not So Fast…

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The Recent History of Tagging False Killer Whales in the Wild

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From Studies of Captive and Stranded Animals to Research on Free-Ranging Individuals: An Expansion of False Killer Whale Science Worldwide

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Received Levels of Odontocetes Tagged During Submarine Command Courses at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in 2023 and 2024

In August 2023 and February 2024, Cascadia Research Collective (CRC) conducted small boat-based satellite tagging of odontocetes at the Pacific

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Small-Boat Surveys and Satellite Tagging of Cetaceans on the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauaʻi, in February 2025

As part of the long-term United States Navy (Navy)-funded Marine Species Monitoring Program, from 9 to 18 February 2025, Cascadia

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Variation in Social Structure Among Multiple Stocks of Island-Associated Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Hawaiian Waters

ABSTRACT The drivers of animal social structures remain poorly understood, particularly in species such as cetaceans that are wide-ranging and

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Using Spatial Capture-Recapture Methods to Estimate Long-Term Spatiotemporal Variation of a Wide-Ranging Marine Species

Determining population status to inform mitigation of anthropogenic threats requires statistical approaches that investigate spatial and temporal variation. In the

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