The oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) is globally understudied with major data deficits despite its global distribution. We present horizontal and vertical movement data by investigating habitat use of seven mature oceanic whitetip sharks equipped with fin-mounted satellite (SPOT/SPLASH) ...
Oceanic whitetip sharks move with extreme efficiency, exploiting physics to maximize their energy surplus for both hunting and downtime. A team of scientists that included shark biologists, anaerospace engineerand statisticians spent several years developing precise calculations based on the oceanic whitetip...
The oceanic whitetip shark,Carcharhinus longimanus, is a Critically Endangered, circumtropical, and highly migratory, pelagic shark. Yet, little information exists on its population genetic dynamics to guide conservation management practice. We present a first worldwide, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA ass...
Characteristics of Shark Bycatch Observed on Pelagic Longlines off the Southeastern United States, 1992–2000 obscurus; night; scalloped hammerhead, Sphyrna lewini; oceanic whitetip, C. longimanus; and sandbar, C. plumbeus; sharks. While sex ratios overall were ... Beerkircher,E Cortés,M Shivji...
Dive timing, prey constituents, and dive shape support foraging as the most viable hypothesis for mesopelagic excursions, indicating that the oceanic whitetip shark may regularly survey extreme environments (deep depths, low temperatures) as a foraging strategy. At the apex of these deep‐water ...
Dive timing, prey constituents, and dive shape support foraging as the most viable hypothesis for mesopelagic excursions, indicating that the oceanic whitetip shark may regularly survey extreme environments (deep depths, low temperatures) as a foraging strategy. At the apex of these deep-water ...
We examined chemical tracers of diet and habitat (δ15N and δ13C, respectively) and total mercury (Hg) concentrations in muscle tissue of seven pelagic sharks: blue shark (Prionace glauca), short-fin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), scalloped ...