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Sighting Characteristics and Photo-Identification of Cuvier’s Beaked Whales (Ziphius cavirostris) Near San Clemente Island, California: A Key Area for Beaked Whales and the Military?

The relationship between beaked whales and certain anthropogenic sounds remains poorly understood and of great interest. Although Cuvier’s beaked whales

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Abundance of Blue and Humpback Whales in the Eastern North Pacific Estimated by Capture-Recapture and Line-Transect Methods

We estimated humpback and blue whale abundance from 1991 to 1997 off the west coast of the U.S. and Mexico

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Insights into the Population Structure of Blue Whales in the Eastern North Pacific from Recent Sightings and Photographic Identifications

Blue whales were widely distributed in the North Pacific prior to the primary period of modern commercial whaling in the

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Population Structure of Island-Associated Dolphins: Evidence from Photo-Identification of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Main Hawaiian Islands

Management agencies often use geopolitical boundaries as proxies for biological boundaries. In Hawaiian waters a single stock is recognized of

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Distribution and Abundance of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and Other Marine Mammals off the Northern Washington Coast

We examined the summer distribution of marine mammals off the northern Washington coast based on six ship transect surveys conducted

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Species and Stock Identification of Prey Consumed by Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales in Their Summer Range

Recovery plans for endangered southern resident killer whales Orcinus orca have identified reduced prey availability as a risk to the

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Does a Lack of Observed Beaked Whale Strandings in Military Exercise Areas Mean No Impacts Have Occurred? A Comparison of Stranding and Detection Probabilities in the Canary and Hawaiian Islands

Anthropogenic activities must be monitored to determine effects on marine mammal species, but the difficulty lies in how to measure

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Geographic Variation of Persistent Organic Pollutants Levels in Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Feeding Areas of the North Pacific and North Atlantic

Seasonal feeding behavior and high fidelity to feeding areas allow humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) to be used as biological indicators

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Association Between Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Mortality and Ship Strikes Along the California Coast

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are distributed worldwide, and although severely depleted by commercial whaling, their abundance off the California coast

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Movements and Habitat Use of Satellite-Tagged False Killer Whales Around the Main Hawaiian Islands

There are 2 recognized stocks of false killer whales Pseudorca crassidens in the US Exclusive Economic Zone surrounding Hawai‘i, a

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