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Written by Kirby Parnell We are pleased to share a new publication in Endangered Species Research , which describes underwater sound reception and sound production in Hawaiian monk seals. This research was completed by Kirby Parnell and colleagues at the University of California Santa Cruz during Kirby’s Master’s thesis , prior to starting her Ph.D. at the University of Hawai’i . The manuscript is entitled: Underwater hearing and communication in the endangered Hawaiian mon

It’s mid-January 2021, and the first gray whales ( Eschrichtius robustus ) from the eastern North Pacific population have started to arrive in the breeding lagoons in Baja California, Mexico. Since the start of their southbound migration from their high latitude feeding grounds, several sightings of emaciated gray whales have already been reported along their migration route. This has raised concern among scientists that the unusual mortality event (UME, an unexpected phenom

Written by Martin van Aswegen We are pleased to announce the following publication in Scientific Reports, entitled: Morphological differences between coastal bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops aduncus ) populations identified using non-invasive stereo-laser photogrammetry. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48419-3 Authors: Martin van Aswegen , Fredrik Christiansen , John Symons , Janet Mann , Krista Nicholson , Kate Sprogis and Lars Bejder . Summary: · If we are to protect long-lived, slo

As part of an international collaboration between Murdoch University , Aarhus University , Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology . L. Bejder , S. Videsen , L. Hermannsen , M. Simon , D. Hanf and P. Madsen recently published a publication titled " Low energy expenditure and resting behaviour of humpback whale mother-calf pairs highlights conservation importance of sheltered breeding areas . " in Scientific Reports . A video sum