Tending the sick: Observations of epimeletic behavior in humpback whales towards conspecifics during entanglement events

• Rachel Cartwright ,

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

  * E-mail: rachel.cartwright@csuci.edu

  Affiliations The Keiki Koholā Project, Kihei, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Environmental Science and Resource Management, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2175-574X

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• Ed Lyman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Kihei, Hawai‘i, United States of America

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• Amy Venema,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Keiki Koholā Project, Kihei, Hawaii, United States of America

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• Jens J. Currie,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pacific Whale Foundation, Wailuku, Hawai‘i, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6084-3091

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• Stephanie H. Stack,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Pacific Whale Foundation, Wailuku, Hawai‘i, United States of America, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7199-8408

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• Adam A. Pack,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Psychology and Biology Departments, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, Hawai‘i, United States of America, The Dolphin Institute, Hilo, Hawai‘i, United States of America

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• Lars Bejder,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Research Program, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Kaneohe, Hawai‘i, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-8606

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• Martin Van Aswegen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Research Program, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Kaneohe, Hawai‘i, United States of America

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• Sadie K. Wright,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Protected Resources Division, Juneau, Alaska, United States of America

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• Dorothy Horn

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science and Resource Management, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, United States of America

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