Rostrum morphology and feeding strategy of the baleen whale indicate that right whales and pygmy right whales became skimmers independently
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DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221353
Abstract: Baleen whales have lost their functional teeth and begun to use their baleen plates to feed on small prey. Modern baleen whales exhibit different types of feeding strategies, such as lunging, skimming and so on.… read more here.
Keywords: rostrum morphology; feeding strategy; right whales; chaeomysticeti ... See more keywords
Coping with copepods: do right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) forage visually in dark waters?
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0067
Abstract: North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) feed during the spring and early summer in marine waters off the northeast coast of North America. Their food primarily consists of planktonic copepods, Calanus finmarchicus, which they consume… read more here.
Keywords: coping copepods; copepods right; whales eubalaena; right whales ... See more keywords
Listening for right whales off Brazil: Present knowledge and future research
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DOI: 10.1121/1.4988923
Abstract: In the Southwest Atlantic, a key southern right whale wintering ground is found off southern Brazil. Aiming to collect reference information on the acoustic ecology of right whale mother-calf pairs in the region, we used… read more here.
Keywords: research; future research; knowledge; right whales ... See more keywords
Vocal behavior and ontogeny of Northern right whales in the southeast critical habitat
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DOI: 10.1121/1.4989179
Abstract: North Atlantic right whales are one of the most endangered of the great whales. A remnant population of ~500 inhabits the eastern seaboard of North America. A small fraction (2%) travels south to their critical… read more here.
Keywords: habitat; right whales; southeast critical; critical habitat ... See more keywords
North Atlantic right whales in danger
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DOI: 10.1126/science.aar2402
Abstract: In 2017, an unprecedented mortality event occurred in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada: Twelve endangered North Atlantic right whales were found dead ([ 1 ][1]–[ 3 ][2]). With fewer than 500 individuals remaining, North… read more here.
Keywords: north atlantic; right whales; atlantic right; whales danger ... See more keywords
Southern right whale Eubalaena australis in Golfo San Matías (Patagonia, Argentina): Evidence of recolonisation
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207524
Abstract: Since the 1980s, the distribution range of the southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) in Argentina was mostly located in the winter calving grounds around Península Valdés. After the international moratorium that forbade the commercial hunting,… read more here.
Keywords: southern right; right whales; golfo san; right whale ... See more keywords
Population estimate and rate of increase of southern right whales Eubalaena australis in southeastern Australia
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DOI: 10.3354/esr01031
Abstract: In Australian waters, southern right whales Eubalaena australis form 2 genetically distinct populations that have shown contrasting patterns of recovery since whaling ceased: a western population in South Australia and Western Australia and an eastern… read more here.
Keywords: southern right; whales eubalaena; right whales; estimate ... See more keywords