Interchanges and movements of humpback whales in Japanese waters: Okinawa, Ogasawara, Amami, and Hokkaido, using an automated matching system.

Interchanges and movements of humpback whales in Japanese waters: Okinawa, Ogasawara, Amami, and Hokkaido, using an automated matching system.

Humpback whales in the western North Pacific are considered endangered due to their small population size and lack of information. Although previous studies have reported interchanges between regions within a population, the relationship between the geographic regions of a population in Japan is poo...

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Main Authors: Nozomi Kobayashi, Satomi Kondo, Koki Tsujii, Katsuki Oki, Masami Hida, Haruna Okabe, Takashi Yoshikawa, Ryuta Ogawa, Chonho Lee, Naoto Higashi, Ryosuke Okamoto, Sachie Ozawa, Senzo Uchida, Yoko Mitani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277761

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277761

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