Download or read book Behavior and Social Organization of Humpback Whale megaptera Novaeangliae Mother calf Pairs on a North Atlantic Feeding Ground written by Katherine Anne Sardi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sociality in the Marine Environment written by David M. P. Jacoby and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Mysticetes written by Christopher W. Clark and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-02 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, an international team of leading marine mammal scientists, with a remarkably diverse set of backgrounds and areas of expertise, lead you through a synthesis of current knowledge on baleen whales. Baleen whales are the largest animals ever to have lived on this planet. They also have the lowest and most intense voices on Earth, most likely evolved to take advantage of ocean acoustic transmission conditions so as to be detectable across ocean basins. Some baleen whales can live to be 150-200 years old. They migrate many thousands of kilometers between feeding and breeding areas. They produce songs and calls that serve as behavioral foundations for establishing, maintaining and expanding their cultural identities. To conclude that we know the behavioral limits of these large brained, long-lived animals would be naïve. As baleen whale scientists, we are still beginning to comprehend the enormous complexities and natural histories of these remarkable animals. Today, the fact that whales sing is known throughout much of the world. This awareness started 50 years ago with the publication and popularization of a collection of humpback song recordings that motivated research into baleen whale behavioral ethology. In this book’s chapters, a reader’s experiences will stretch from learning about baleen whale laryngeal anatomy associated with their different voices to learning about the vast ocean areas over which their voices can be heard and the emerging complexities of their culturally defined societies. These are accompanied by chapters on the fundamental ethological contexts of socializing, migrating, and foraging. Two common themes permeate the book. One theme highlights the phenomenal increase in scientific knowledge achieved through technological advancements. The other theme recognizes the impacts of human-made activities on ocean acoustic environments and the resultant influences on the health and survival of individual whales and their populations. Although the book is intentionally ambitious in its scope, as scientists, we fully recognize that baleen whale science is still in its infancy. Many profound revelations await discovery by cohorts of young, multi-talented explorers, some of whom are stretching their wings in this volume and some of whom are reading these scientific stories for the first time.
Download or read book Whalewatcher written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Behaviour and Dynamics of Humpback Whale Megaptera Novaeangliae Mother and Calf Pairs During Their Residence in Nursery Waters written by Rachel Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Occurrence Patterns and Social Behaviors of Humpback Whales Megaptera Novaeangliae Wintering Off Puerto Rico USA written by Mithriel Morningstar MacKay and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occurrence patterns and social behaviors of North Atlantic humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) (NAHW) wintering off Puerto Rico were investigated to examine the relationship of this area to the aggregation wintering off the Dominican Republic. I described winter occurrence, movement and association patterns, and the relationship of group associations with bathymetric features in Mona Passage, immediately west of Puerto Rico. Data were collected from boat, land, and aerial surveys from 2011 to 2014. Acoustic data were collected with hydrophones deployed from a small vessel and units mounted to the sea floor, to determine the presence of singers (males). Photo-identification of individuals was used to describe intermixing of whales between higher latitudes and the study area. Social behaviors were described between intra- and inter-specific associations. A pilot study was conducted January-March 2011 from land platforms using scan sampling. In 2012, boat-based data collection and aerial reconnaissance were added. A total of 240.9 hours vessel, 13.0 hours aerial, and 303.6 hours land observations were conducted over 165 days. One hundred ninety-seven groups of humpback whales were observed with N = 331 individuals: 91 (46.2%) singletons, 67 (34%) dyads, 17 (8.6%) mother-calf pairs, 8 (4.1%) in competitive breeding groups, 8 (4.1%) mother-calf-escort groups, and 6 (3.1%) mixed-species associations. Group associations were not random. A multinomial linear regression model supported group composition and behaviors were correlated with "hotspots" associated with four bathymetric features. Dyads and surface active groups were dispersed among features in deeper water. Singletons were observed further from a shelf edge, while singing males were closely associated with a shelf edge. Mother-calf pairs occurred nearshore in shallow water moving offshore when accompanied by an escort. Identification photos matched against the NAHW catalog indicated movement between most feeding grounds and throughout the West Indies. It is important to continue and expand this study in Puerto Rico to monitor long-term population changes, and as a means of predicting where human activity overlaps with NAHW occurrence, especially due to possible U.S. delisting of NAHW as endangered. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155581.
Download or read book Voyaging with the Whales written by Cynthia D'Vincent and published by Chicago : Oakwell Boulton ; Toronto : Boulton Pub. Services. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arc Marine written by Dawn J. Wright and published by ESRI, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a must for the marine community - including oceanographers, resource managers, geographers, nautical archaeologists, climate change specialists, and other students of the deep - coming at a time when the health of our oceans is seen as crucial to our very existence. As a teaching tool, Arc Marine: GIS for a Blue Planet serves as a perfect starting point for the intermediate student or as a resource for the expert in marine GIS. Marine researchers have developed a data model that supports seafloor mapping, fisheries management, marine mammal tracking, monitoring of shoreline change, and water temperature analysis. The ability to measure change in oceans and along coasts has increased as marine GIS has grown more complex. Arc Marine: GIS for a Blue Planet presents the initial results of a successful effort to create and define a data model for the marine community - that group of academic, government, military, and private oceanographers, resource managers, conservationists, geographers, nautical archaeologists, and others who support better management of complex spatial analysis in marine applications. The data model not only provides structure to storing and analyzing marine data but helps users create maps and three-dimensional scenes of the marine environment in ways invaluable to decision making as the marine community strives to understand, illuminate, chart, and explore the unknown depths.
Download or read book Whales and climate written by Jan-Olaf Meynecke and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward the Social and Acoustic Ecology of Social Foraging Humpback Whales Megaptera Novaeangliae in Southeast Alaska written by Sean Frederick Thurman Hanser and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Marine Mammals Ashore written by Joseph R. Geraci and published by National Aquarium in Baltimore. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive manual for understanding and carrying out marine mammal rescue activities for stranded seals, manatees, dolphins, whales, or sea otters.
Download or read book Atlas of Cetacean Distribution in North west European Waters written by James B. Reid and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the distribution of 28 cetacean species that are known to have occurred in the waters off north-west Europe. Individual chapters cover particular species in detail, spanning identification, behaviour and social organisation, diet and habitat preferences, worldwide distribution and population status.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Queensland Museum written by Queensland Museum and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrated Coastal Zone Management written by Erlend Moksness and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal waters around the globe suffer from strain due to a widerange of human activities. The situation calls for a holisticapproach, combining expertise from nature and social science, toreach a balanced and sustainable development of the coastal zone. This important book comprises the proceedings of TheInternational Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management,which took place in Arendal, Norway between 11-14 June 2007. The main objective of the Symposium was to present currentknowledge and to address issues on advice and management related tothe coastal zone. The major themes of papers included in this bookare: Coastal habitats Impacts on coastal systems Integrated Coastal Zone Management Coastal governance Comprising a huge wealth of information, this timely and welledited volume is essential reading for all those involved incoastal zone management around the globe. All libraries in researchestablishments and universities where fisheries and aquaticsciences are studied and taught will need copies of this importantvolume on their shelves.
