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Sperm whales

Beaked whale dive behavior and acoustic detection range off Louisiana using three-dimensional acoustic tracking

Héloïse Frouin-Mouy, Kaitlin E. Frasier, John A. Hildebrand, Eric R. Snyder, Sean M. Wiggins, Lance P. Garrison, Melissa S. Soldevilla

published 04 Feb 2026

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An open-source bio-logger for studying cetacean behavior and communication

Daniel M. Vogt, Joseph DelPreto, Michael Salino-Hugg, Matthew R. Cummings, Michael A. Bell, Aidan Kenny, Peter Malkin, Alyssa M. Hernandez, Andrew L. Wright, Molly A. Duncan, Matthew R. Davidsen, Kaveet Grewal, Saksham Ahuja, Kelly Ostrom, Matthew Garcia, Phillip Shahviri, Chanuth Weeraratna, Hannah Zink, Stefano Pagani, Germain Meyer, Roee Diamant, Daniela Rus, David F. Gruber, Shane Gero, Robert J. Wood

published 11 Dec 2025

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Drone-based application of whale tags: A “tap-and-go” approach for scientific animal-borne investigations

Daniel M. Vogt, Stefano Pagani, Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier, Shane Gero, David F. Gruber, Robert J. Wood

published 13 Aug 2025

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The Caprera Canyon (north–eastern Sardinia): A hotspot of cetacean diversity in the western Mediterranean Sea

Luca Bittau, Renata Manconi, Mariliana Leotta, Rossana Tenerelli, Mattia Cristina Leone, Elena Fontanesi, Federica Fonda, Ginevra Boldrocchi, Sandro Carniel, Rocco Tiberti

published 09 Jul 2025

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A minimally invasive marine mammal sex determination method using epidermal tissue recovered from suction-cup tags

Sadie X. Novak, Jacob M.J. Linsky, Kaitlyn J. Knapp, Susan E. Parks, David Wiley, Dana A. Cusano

published 23 May 2025

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From the jaws of the “Leviathan”: A sperm whale tooth from the Valencina Copper Age Megasite

Samuel Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo, Miriam Luciañez-Triviño, Fernando Muñiz Guinea, Luis Miguel Cáceres Puro, Antonio Toscano Grande, Marta Díaz-Guardamino, Juan Manuel Vargas Jiménez, Thomas Xavier Schuhmacher, Rafael María Martínez Sánchez, Santiago Guillamón Dávila, Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal, Leonardo García Sanjuán

published 14 May 2025

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The Zooarchaeology of ancient whaling practices in Portugal: A review and a new Roman Republican contribution at Castelo Velho de Safara

Mariana Nabais, Rui Soares, Youri van den Hurk

published 20 Nov 2024

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New northernmost distribution records of the Eastern South Pacific southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), including the first cases from Ecuador and northern Peru

Cristina Castro Ayala, Ana M. García-Cegarra, Piero Uceda-Vega, Luis Aguilar, Shaleyla Kelez, Susannah J. Buchan, Fernando Félix, Stephanie H. Stack, Koen Van Waerebeek

published 11 Nov 2024

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Sperm whale demographics in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands: An overlooked female habitat

Natalie Posdaljian, Alba Solsona-Berga, John A. Hildebrand, Caroline Soderstjerna, Sean M. Wiggins, Kieran Lenssen, Simone Baumann-Pickering

published 03 Jul 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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Archaeological evidence of resource utilisation of the great whales over the past two millennia: A systematic review protocol

Danielle L. Buss, Youri van den Hurk, Mohsen Falahati-Anbaran, Deirdre Elliott, Sally Evans, Brenna A. Frasier, Jacqueline A. Mulville, Lisa K. Rankin, Heidrun Stebergløkken, Peter Whitridge, James H. Barrett

published 14 Dec 2023

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Sperm and northern bottlenose whale interactions with deep-water trawlers in the western North Atlantic

Usua Oyarbide, Laura Joan Feyrer, Jonathan Gordon

published 23 Aug 2023

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Posterior probabilities of membership of repertoires in acoustic clades

Hal Whitehead, Taylor A. Hersh

published 22 Apr 2022

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