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Killer whales

Social associations and habitat selection delineate two subpopulations of west coast transient killer whales (Orcinus orca rectipinnus) in the California Current System

Josh D. McInnes, Andrew W. Trites, Kevin M. Lester, Chelsea R. Mathieson, Lawrence M. Dill, Jeffrey E. Moore, Marilyn E. Dahlheim, Jonathan J. Scordino, K. S. Jasper Kanes, Paula A. Olson

published 06 Nov 2025

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Vocalization behaviors in captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and rough-toothed dolphins (Steno bredanensis)

Weijie Fu, Zhongchang Song, Wenjie Xiang, Chuang Zhang, Wuyi Yang, Xiaohui Xu, Yu Zhang

published 31 Oct 2025

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Modeling the detection range of pulsed calls from resident killer whale in nearshore waters of British Columbia, Canada

Xavier Mouy, Melanie Austin, Jennifer Wladichuk, Harald Yurk

published 26 Sep 2025

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Incorporating sparse labels into hidden Markov models using weighted likelihoods improves accuracy and interpretability in biologging studies

Evan Sidrow, Nancy Heckman, Tess M. McRae, Beth L. Volpov, Andrew W. Trites, Sarah M.E. Fortune, Marie Auger-Méthé

published 18 Jun 2025

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Drone-based observations of scarring patterns in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the New York Bight provide insight into foraging behavior and anthropogenic threats

Siobhan E. Keeling, Chelsi Napoli, Joshua Meza-Fidalgo, Julia S. Stepanuk, Nathan Hirtle, Zachary Hoffman, Lesley H. Thorne

published 30 May 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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Prevalence of Chinook salmon is higher for southern than for northern resident killer whales in summer hot-spot feeding areas

Burak Saygili, Andrew W. Trites

published 10 Oct 2024

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Killer whale respiration rates

Tess M. McRae, Beth L. Volpov, Evan Sidrow, Sarah M. E. Fortune, Marie Auger-Méthé, Nancy Heckman, Andrew W. Trites

published 15 May 2024

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Exploring odontocete depredation rates in a pelagic longline fishery

Eric Gilman, Milani Chaloupka, Aude Pacini, Eric Kingma

published 28 Mar 2024

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Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) post-mortem findings from December 2018 through 2021 during the Unusual Mortality Event in the Eastern North Pacific

Stephen Raverty, Pádraig Duignan, Denise Greig, Jessica L. Huggins, Kathy Burek Huntington, Michael Garner, John Calambokidis, Paul Cottrell, Kerri Danil, Dalin D’Alessandro, Deborah Duffield, Moe Flannery, Frances MD Gulland, Barbie Halaska, Dyanna M. Lambourn, Taylor Lehnhart, Jorge Urbán R., Teri Rowles, James Rice, Kate Savage, Kristin Wilkinson, Justin Greenman, Justin Viezbicke, Brendan Cottrell, P. Dawn Goley, Maggie Martinez, Deborah Fauquier

published 27 Mar 2024

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Analysis of protected species observer data: Strengths, weaknesses, and application in the assessment of marine mammal responses to seismic surveys in the northern Gulf of Mexico 2002–2015

Mary Jo Barkaszi, Christopher J. Kelly

published 21 Mar 2024

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Foraging behaviour and ecology of transient killer whales within a deep submarine canyon system

Josh D. McInnes, Kevin M. Lester, Lawrence M. Dill, Chelsea R. Mathieson, Peggy J. West-Stap, Stephanie L. Marcos, Andrew W. Trites

published 20 Mar 2024

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The combined effects of predation, fishing, and ocean productivity on salmon species targeted by marine mammals in the northeast Pacific

Fanny Couture, Villy Christensen, Carl Walters

published 14 Mar 2024

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