Pathology and causes of death in stranded humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from Brazil

• Kátia Regina Groch ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: katia.groch@gmail.com

  Affiliations Laboratory of Wildlife Comparative Pathology, Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Instituto Baleia Jubarte, Caravelas, Bahia, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2359-6391

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• Josué Díaz-Delgado,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Wildlife Comparative Pathology, Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Division of Histology and Animal Pathology, Institute for Animal Health, Veterinary School, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arucas, Canary Islands, Spain

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• Milton C. C. Marcondes,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Baleia Jubarte, Caravelas, Bahia, Brazil

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• Adriana Castaldo Colosio,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Baleia Jubarte, Caravelas, Bahia, Brazil

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• Elitieri B. Santos-Neto,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Baleia Jubarte, Caravelas, Bahia, Brazil

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• Vítor Luz Carvalho,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Associação de Pesquisa e Preservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos, Caucaia, Ceará, Brazil

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• Gisele Silva Boos,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Setor de Patologia Veterinária, Faculdade de Veterinária, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Ana Carolina Oliveira de Meirelles,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Associação de Pesquisa e Preservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos, Caucaia, Ceará, Brazil

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• Hernani Gomes da Cunha Ramos,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Baleia Jubarte, Caravelas, Bahia, Brazil

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• Juliana Plácido Guimarães,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundação Mamíferos Aquáticos, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, Universidade Santa Cecília, Pós-Graduação em Sustentabilidade de Ecossistemas Costeiros e Marinhos, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil

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• João Carlos Gomes Borges,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fundação Mamíferos Aquáticos, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Jociery Einhardt Vergara-Parente,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundação Mamíferos Aquáticos, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, Instituto de Tecnologia e Pesquisa, Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil

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• Judy A. St. Leger,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SeaWorld, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Antonio Fernández,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Histology and Animal Pathology, Institute for Animal Health, Veterinary School, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arucas, Canary Islands, Spain

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• José Luiz Catão-Dias

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Wildlife Comparative Pathology, Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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