Quantifying the energy stores of capital breeding humpback whales and income breeding sperm whales using historical whaling records
Cetacean energy stores are known to vary according to life history, reproductive status and time of year; however, the opportunity to quantify these relationships is rare. Using a unique set of historical whaling records from Western Australia (1952–1963), we investigated energy stores of large ceta...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2017-01-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160290 |