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Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Cottids, Mussels, and Sediment in Southern Puget Sound, Washington

In Southern Puget Sound, PCB levels tend to be highest at or near the areas of highest population density, industry,

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High Mortality of Blue, Humpback and Fin Whales from Modeling of Vessel Collisions on the U.S. West Coast Suggests Population Impacts and Insufficient Protection

Mortality from collisions with vessels is one of the main human causes of death for large whales. Ship strikes are

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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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Noise Levels Received by Endangered Killer Whales Orcinus orca Before and After Implementation of Vessel Regulations

Whale watching is often conducted from motorized vessels, which contribute to underwater noise pollution and can disturb marine mammals. Protective

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Determining Forward Speed from Accelerometer Jiggle in Aquatic Environments

How fast animals move is critical to understanding their energetic requirements, locomotor capacity, and foraging performance, yet current methods for

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Persistent Organic Pollutants, Stress and Sex Hormones in Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) with B-cell Lymphoma

B-cell lymphoma, a common morphologic variant of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, has been associated with persistent pollutants in humans, but this association

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Resource Partitioning Facilitates Coexistence in Sympatric Cetaceans in the California Current

Resource partitioning is an important process driving habitat use and foraging strategies in sympatric species that potentially compete. Differences in

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Context-Dependent Lateralized Feeding Strategies in Blue Whales

Lateralized behaviors benefit individuals by increasing task efficiency in foraging and anti-predator behaviors [1–4] . The conventional lateralization paradigm suggests

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Using Digital Tags with Integrated Video and Inertial Sensors to Study Moving Morphology and Associated Function in Large Aquatic Vertebrates

The anatomy of large cetaceans has been well documented, mostly through dissection of dead specimens. However, the difficulty of studying

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Diet of Cuvier’s Beaked Whales Ziphius cavirostris from the North Pacific and a Comparison with Their Diet World-Wide

Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) are distributed world-wide and are the most common cetacean to strand coincident with navy sonars.

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