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Kwang-Ming Liu, Kuan-Yu Su and Chien-Pang Chin
Cetacean and shark depredations in a small-scale longline fishery in the southeastern Taiwan waters were estimated based on interviews of 21 fishermen and logbooks of 12 sampling vessels, including 649 operations (681,310 hooks) from October 2009 to Dece...
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Silvana Neves, Yann Doh, Simona Sacchini, Eric Delory, Antonio Fernández and Ayoze Castro-Alonso
The MARCET project (MAC/1.1b/149) aims to monitor the health status of resident cetaceans in Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) of particular interest for whale-watching in Macaronesia. This study, performed in the Canary Islands, Spain, used an autono...
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Xiaoyu Huang, Mingming Liu, Samuel T. Turvey, Mingli Lin and Songhai Li
Marine mammals are a diverse group of aquatic animals that exhibit wide variation in body size, living conditions, breeding habitat, social behaviour and phylogeny. Although case studies about prenatal investment in cetaceans and pinnipeds have been inve...
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Christin B. Khan, Kimberly T. Goetz, Hannah C. Cubaynes, Caleb Robinson, Erin Murnane, Tyler Aldrich, Meredith Sackett, Penny J. Clarke, Michelle A. LaRue, Timothy White, Kathleen Leonard, Anthony Ortiz and Juan M. Lavista Ferres
Monitoring marine mammals is of broad interest to governments and individuals around the globe. Very high-resolution (VHR) satellites hold the promise of reaching remote and challenging locations to fill gaps in our knowledge of marine mammal distributio...
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Rianna Burnham and David Duffus
Organisms use multi-modal, scale-dependent, sensory information to decipher their surroundings. This can include, for example, recognizing the presence of con- or heterospecifics, including a predatory threat, the presence and abundance of prey, or navig...
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Douglas Gillespie, Gordon Hastie, Jessica Montabaranom, Emma Longden, Katie Rapson, Anhelina Holoborodko and Carol Sparling
Understanding how marine animals behave around tidal turbines is essential if we are to quantify how individuals and populations may be affected by the installation of these devices in the coming decades. Our particular interest is in collision risk, and...
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Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Johan Gustafon and David E. Cade
Cetaceans are known for their intelligence and display of complex behaviours including object use. For example, bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) are known to rub on rocks and some humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) populations undertake lateral b...
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Helena Costa, Andrew Rogan, Christopher Zadra, Oddbjørn Larsen, Audun H. Rikardsen and Courtney Waugh
Analysis of cetacean blow offers a unique potential for non-invasive assessments of their health. In recent years, the use of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) has revolutionized the way these samples are collected. However, the high cost and expertise ass...
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Yao Ming, Xueying Yu, Wei Liu, Jingzhen Wang and Wenhua Liu
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Francesca Terranova, Alessandra Raffa, Stefano Floridia, Clara Monaco and Livio Favaro
Cetacean bycatch is increasing worldwide and poses a threat to the conservation of several delphinids. The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is frequently involved in bycatch incidents, due to its coastal distribution and opportunistic behaviour. T...
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