Whale / by Papastavrou, Vassili, author

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Whales / by Wexo, John Bonnett, author

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The genomic footprint of whaling and isolation in fin whale populations by Sergio F. Nigenda-Morales, Meixi Lin, Paulina G. Nuñez-Valencia, Christopher C. Kyriazis, Annabel C. Beichman, Jacqueline A. Robinson, Aaron P. Ragsdale, Jorge Urbán R., Frederick I. Archer, Lorena Viloria-Gómora, María José Pérez-Álvarez, Elie Poulin, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Robert K. Wayne

“…Abstract Twentieth century industrial whaling pushed several species to the brink of extinction, with fin whales being the most impacted. …”
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Frank Whaling: Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion by Jens Peter Schjødt

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Species distribution modelling of Bryde’s whales, humpback whales, southern right whales, and sperm whales in the southern African region to inform their conservation in expanding economies by Jean Purdon, Fannie W. Shabangu, Dawit Yemane, Marc Pienaar, Michael J. Somers, Ken Findlay

“…We determined the relative importance of eight environmental variables (bathymetry, distance to shore, slope, chlorophyll-a, salinity, eastwards sea water velocity, northwards sea water velocity and sea surface temperature) as drivers of seasonal habitat preferences of Bryde’s whales (Balaenoptera brydei), humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) and sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). …”
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Whale nation / by Williams, Heathcote, author

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The whales' song / by Sheldon, Dyan, author, Blythe, Gary, illustrator

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The smallest whale / by Beresford, Elisabeth, author, Field, Susan, illustrator

The blue whale / by Steele, Philip, author

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The whale road / by Low, Robert, author

The Whaleness of the Whale: Interspecies Relationality in Moby-Dick and In The Heart of the Sea by Svetlana Seibel

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Post-whaling shift in mating tactics in male humpback whales by Rebecca Dunlop, Celine Frere

“…Following population level recovery after the ban on whaling, male humpback whales have trended towards physical competition rather than singing when competing for mates.…”
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Exfoliating Whales–Sandy Bottom Contact Behaviour of Humpback Whales by Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Johan Gustafon, David E. Cade

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All About Whaling and Conservation Issues by Theriot, Irena

The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting by Youri van den Hurk, Fanny Sikström, Luc Amkreutz, Madeleine Bleasdale, Aurélia Borvon, Brice Ephrem, Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Hannah M. B. Gibbs, Leif Jonsson, Alexander Lehouck, Jose Martínez Cedeira, Stefan Meng, Rui Monge, Marta Moreno, Mariana Nabais, Carlos Nores, José Antonio Pis-Millán, Ian Riddler, Ulrich Schmölcke, Martin Segschneider, Camilla Speller, Maria Vretemark, Stephen Wickler, Matthew Collins, Marie-Josée Nadeau, James H. Barrett

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MOBY DICK; or, The Whale / by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, author 321206, Robinson, Boardman, illustrator

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Quantifying the energy stores of capital breeding humpback whales and income breeding sperm whales using historical whaling records by Lyn G. Irvine, Michele Thums, Christine E. Hanson, Clive R. McMahon, Mark A. Hindell

“…Using a unique set of historical whaling records from Western Australia (1952–1963), we investigated energy stores of large cetaceans with differing life histories, and quantified the relationship between total body lipid and length for humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) (n = 905) and sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) (n = 1961). …”
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Rostrum morphology and feeding strategy of the baleen whale indicate that right whales and pygmy right whales became skimmers independently by Yoshihiro Tanaka

“…Baleen whales have lost their functional teeth and begun to use their baleen plates to feed on small prey. …”
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False killer whale and short-finned pilot whale acoustic identification by S Baumann-Pickering, AE Simonis, EM Oleson, RW Baird, MA Roch, SM Wiggins

“…False killer whales Pseudorca crassidens and short-finned pilot whales Globicephala macrorhynchus are known to interact with long-line fishing gear in Hawaiian waters, causing economic loss and leading to whale injuries and deaths. …”
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Categorisation of the length of bowhead whales from British Arctic whaling records by Jeremy Wilkinson, Gaëlle Veyssière, Gaëlle Veyssière, Nick Hughes, Matthew Ayre, Maribeth Murray, Robert Headland, Ryan Charles, Ryan Charles

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