About the Authors

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara

disciara@tethys.org

Affiliation Tethys Research Institute, Viale G.B. Gadio 2, 20121, Milano, Italy

Giancarlo Lauriano

Affiliation Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Via Vitaliano Brancati 48, 00144, Roma, Italy

Nino Pierantonio

Affiliation Tethys Research Institute, Viale G.B. Gadio 2, 20121, Milano, Italy

Ana Cañadas

Affiliation ALNILAM Research and Conservation Ltd, Cándamo 116, 28240 Hoyo de Manzanares, Madrid, Spain

Greg Donovan

Affiliation The International Whaling Commission, The Red House, 135 Station Road, Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 9NP, United Kingdom

Simone Panigada

Affiliation Tethys Research Institute, Viale G.B. Gadio 2, 20121, Milano, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP GL GD NP. Performed the experiments: SP GL NP. Analyzed the data: AC GL. Wrote the paper: GNdS GD.