breeding grounds and migration routes of the humpback whale Humpback whales live along the coasts of all oceans, occasionally swimming close to shore, even into harbours and rivers. Theyundertakelong migrations between polar feeding grounds in summer and tropical or subtropical breeding grounds in wint...
So, he managed to get two licenses for his boat from the authorities in order to take six to seven photographers and filmmakers to see the humpback whale migration. However, since the license was only valid for the boat, rather than assigned to a particular person, it meant he had to tra...
A humpback whale mother and calf captivated the San Francisco Bay Area in May 2007. This pair appeared to have gotten lost on their Northern migration, swam into the bay and up the Sacramento River as far as the Port of Sacramento. First spotted on 13 May, the whales inspired intense news...
Daniel Palacios, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, says that the record-breaking journey could indicate that migration patterns are shifting as populations begin to recover from near-extinction and the population increases. But the reasons why the whale did not follow the usual...
She added that although humpback whales' social interactions and migration patterns are very well known, little is known about their reproductive habits. There is little evidence of humpback whale penises being sighted, and their copulation has never before been recorded before the sa...
Keywords: humpback whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; migration; Central America; Antarctica; sea-surface temperature Marine biologyPalacios, Daniel MCalambokidis, JohnRosa, Luciano DallaSecchi, Eduardo RSteiger, Gretchen HAllen, Judith MStone, Gregory S...
. She could have beenexploring new habitats, or simplyhave lost her way. 'We generally think of humpback whales as very well studied, but then they surprise us with things like this,’ Palacios says. ‘Undoubtedly there are a lot of things we still don’t know about whale migration.’...
migration: at the beginning (n = 20) and several months into their migration (n = 20), using barcoded tag sequencing of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. We show that early in the fasting the whale blow samples had a higher diversity and richness combined with a larger number of ...
Existing population models for humpback whales assume that all individuals within a population undertake the annual migration from feeding areas in high latitudes to breeding areas in tropical waters. An excess of males was recorded in the commercial whaling catches near breeding areas in the southern...
World map showing the locations of the two study areas (Newfoundland86and Hawaii46) in boxes, along with other regions where one or more of the five call types have been described, representing two migration routes and two foraging grounds. From left to right on the map (excluding the study...