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Blue whales

Biological findings from a newly developed photo-identification catalog for the critically endangered Rice’s whale (Balaenoptera ricei)

Laura Aichinger Dias, Kevin P. Barry, Lance P. Garrison, Jenny Litz, Lynsey A. Wilcox Talbot, Ruth Y. Ewing, Anthony Martinez

published 08 Sep 2025

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Blue and fin whales in the Northern Mariana Islands: Their call characteristics and occurrence

Camille Ollier, Megan Wood, Erin M. Oleson, Ana Širović

published 21 Aug 2025

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

Rachel Cartwright, Ed Lyman, Amy Venema, Jens J. Currie, Stephanie H. Stack, Adam A. Pack, Lars Bejder, Martin Van Aswegen, Sadie K. Wright, Dorothy Horn

published 15 Apr 2025

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Audible changes in marine trophic ecology: Baleen whale song tracks foraging conditions in the eastern North Pacific

John P. Ryan, William K. Oestreich, Kelly J. Benoit-Bird, Chad M. Waluk, Carlos A. Rueda, Danelle E. Cline, Yanwu Zhang, Ted Cheeseman, John Calambokidis, James A. Fahlbusch, Jack Barkowski, Alyson H. Fleming, Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Jarrod A. Santora, Tetyana Margolina, John E. Joseph, Ari S. Friedlaender, Jeremy A. Goldbogen

published 26 Feb 2025

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Passive acoustic monitoring of baleen whale seasonal presence across the New York Bight

Bobbi J. Estabrook, Lisa A. Bonacci-Sullivan, Danielle V. Harris, Kristin B. Hodge, Ashakur Rahaman, Meghan E. Rickard, Daniel P. Salisbury, Matthew D. Schlesinger, Julia M. Zeh, Susan E. Parks, Aaron N. Rice

published 13 Feb 2025

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Assessing changing baleen whale distributions and reported incidents relative to vessel activity in the Northwest Atlantic

Hannah Solway, Boris Worm, Tonya Wimmer, Derek P. Tittensor

published 15 Jan 2025

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A multi-year analysis of acoustic occurrence and habitat use of blue and fin whales in eastern and central Fram Strait

Marlene Meister, Elena Schall, Robert Dziak, Stefanie Spiesecke, Karolin Thomisch

published 26 Nov 2024

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“Playing the beat”: Occurrence of Bio-duck calls in Santos Basin (Brazil) reveals a complex acoustic behaviour for the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)

Marcos R. Rossi-Santos, Diego Filun, William Soares-Filho, Alexandre D. Paro, Leonardo L. Wedekin

published 15 Sep 2022

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Update on frequency decline of Northeast Pacific blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) calls

Ally Rice, Ana Širović, John A. Hildebrand, Megan Wood, Alex Carbaugh-Rutland, Simone Baumann-Pickering

published 01 Apr 2022

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A method for tracking blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) with a widely spaced network of ocean bottom seismometers

William S. D. Wilcock, Rose S. Hilmo

published 15 Dec 2021

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Application of endocrine biomarkers to update information on reproductive physiology in gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus)

Valentina Melica, Shannon Atkinson, John Calambokidis, Aimée Lang, Jonathan Scordino, Franz Mueter

published 03 Aug 2021

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Shifting trends: Detecting changes in cetacean population dynamics in shifting habitat

Charlotte Boyd, André E. Punt

published 20 May 2021

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Modeling changes in baleen whale seasonal abundance, timing of migration, and environmental variables to explain the sudden rise in entanglements in California

Kaytlin Ingman, Ellen Hines, Piero L. F. Mazzini, R. Cotton Rockwood, Nadav Nur, Jaime Jahncke

published 15 Apr 2021

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