Humpback whales
The waters of São Tomé: a calving ground for West African humpback whales?
... Hemisphere, humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae feed in Antarctic waters during the austral summer and migrate to their breeding grounds in subtropical and tropical waters during the ...of ...
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Movement patterns of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) reoccupying a Brazilian breeding ground
... of humpback whales from breeding stock A is increasing, and little is known about the routes used by humpbacks that move north of the main calving area of Brazil, the Abrolhos ...of humpback ...
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Behavior of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae): comparisons between two coastal areas of Brazil
... One of the study areas comprise the northern coast of the state of Bahia (NB), established in this study as northern limit at Subauma (~12.6°S) and southern limit at Salvador (~13°S). Here, coral reefs extend along a ...
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Behavioral responses of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae), to satellite transmitter deployment procedures
... Tagging whales with implantable satellite transmitters creates the possibility of disturbing the ...of humpback whales during tag deployment operations were con- ducted off the coast of Brazil from ...
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The world's most isolated and distinct whale population? Humpback whales of the Arabian Sea.
... Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were among those species heavily impacted by whaling, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere ...for humpback whales in the Arabian Sea (Figure ...
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Effective population size and the genetic consequences of commercial whaling on the humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) from
... worldwide humpback whale population to a small frac- tion of its pre-exploitation abundance (Tønnessen and Johnsen, ...200,000 humpback whales were hunted from 1904 to 1972, after accounting for the ...
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Mother knows best: occurrence and associations of resighted humpback whales suggest maternally derived fidelity to a Southern Hemisphere coastal feeding ground.
... including humpback whales (Megaptera ...to humpback whale feeding grounds is transferred maternally but this has never been shown for the species in the Southern ...identified humpback ...
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Caracterização da variabilidade genética e avaliação das prováveis áreas de alimentação baseada no DNA mitocondrial da população de baleias Jubarte, Megaptera novaeangliae, no banco dos Abrolhos, Bahia, Brasil
... species, humpback whales have a minimum age at sexual maturity of 4 to 6 years (Klinowska, 1991) and a long generation time between 5 to 10 years (Baker et ...the humpback populations, including the ...
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Primeiro encalhe documentado de uma baleiaminkeanã, Balaenoptera acutorostrata , na costa do Ceará, Nordeste do Brasil
... Minke whales off Brazil. Scientiic Reports of the Whales Research Institute, ...of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off Northeastern ...
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Estrutura populacional e história demográfica das populações de baleias jubarte (Megaptera novaeangliae) da América do Sul
... Atlantic humpback whale population (Breeding Stock A) was estimated by catch records to having reduced to nearly 2% of its historical size by the commercial ...this humpback whale population using the 454 ...
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First reported stranding of a dwarf minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata , on the coast of Ceará, Northeastern, Brazil
... Minke whales off Brazil. Scientiic Reports of the Whales Research Institute, ...of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off Northeastern ...
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Humpback whale song and foraging behavior on an antarctic feeding ground.
... appear to have been from one animal continuously, or the song levels on the tag may have faded out completely as the other (potentially singing) whale drifted away. As described in the results section, unit received ...
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Data on biology and exploitation of West Atlantic sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus (Cetacea: Physeteridae) off the coast of Paraíba, Brazil
... the humpback whale disappeared from the records ...baleen whales over the sperm whales. Initially, humpback whales were pre- ferred; soon thereafter, the preference shifted to sei ...
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Braz. j. oceanogr. vol.60 número3
... of humpback whales off Trindade ...the whales sighted by this author included: singletons, mother-calf, mother-calf and escort and ...of humpback whales wintering off Brazil was ...
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Registros de cetáceos ao longo de um gradiente costeiro-pelágico na Cadeia Vitória-Trindade, Oceano Atlântico Sul ocidental
... the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae , N = 9 groups), the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus, N = 1), the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis , N = 1), the rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis, ...
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Caracterização genética da população de baleias jubarte (Megaptera Novaeangliae) da área de reprodução do Oceano Atlântico Sul Ocidental baseado em microssatélites nucleares
... Brazilian humpback whales showed high level of haplotypic and nucleotidic diversity (Engel et ...of whales the population size was not sufficiently reduced or did not last for enough generations to ...
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Humpback whale populations share a core skin bacterial community: towards a health index for marine mammals?
... of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), and examine the potential for a core bacterial community and its variability with host (endogenous) or geographic/environmental (exogenous) specific ...to ...
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Spatial and seasonal distribution of American whaling and whales in the age of sail.
... and humpback whales that were the primary targets provide information on 19 th century distribution patterns that is available in no other ...where whales were seen as well as where they were not, ...
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Beauties and Beasts
... were sighted by navigators off African shores, prior to a storm or shipwreck, or in the open waters of Mar Oceano during early Portuguese exploration of new parts of the world. In early-modern Portuguese written sources ...
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Population Structure, Habitat Use and Conservation of Short-Finned Pilot Whales Globicephala macrorhynchus
... Hierarchical cluster analysis was used to classify and illustrate relationships between the whales that were captured more often. O nly whales captured on ≥4 encounters with high- or full-coverage were used ...
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