A link between male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , of the Azores and Norway
Little is known about the movements of male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , in the North Atlantic. Recoveries of traditional harpoons and tags during commercial whaling indicated movements from Nova Scotia to Spain and from the Azores to Iceland and Spain. We compared collections of photo-ide...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0025315412000793 2024-03-03T08:36:39+00:00 A link between male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , of the Azores and Norway Steiner, Lisa Lamoni, Luca Acosta Plata, Marta Jensen, Silje-Kristin Lettevall, Erland Gordon, Jonathan 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315412000793 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0025315412000793 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom volume 92, issue 8, page 1751-1756 ISSN 0025-3154 1469-7769 Aquatic Science journal-article 2012 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315412000793 2024-02-08T08:49:10Z Little is known about the movements of male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , in the North Atlantic. Recoveries of traditional harpoons and tags during commercial whaling indicated movements from Nova Scotia to Spain and from the Azores to Iceland and Spain. We compared collections of photo-identification images from different areas using the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sperm Whale Catalogue and the Eurphlukes Phlex/Match programs. The largest collections of identified males (number of individuals, start and end date for data collection shown in parentheses) are for the Azores (297, 1987–2008), Andenes (375, 1988–1996 and 2008), Tromsø (84, 2005–2008). There were six matches between Andenes and Tromsø (~25 nm), with three of these re-sighted in multiple years and three photo-identification matches from the Azores to Norway (~2400 nm). In all cases individuals first photographed in the Azores (in 1993, 1999 and 2003) were matched to images collected later in Tromsø (in 2007 and 2008). In 1997 a photo-identification image from Andenes matched a male stranded on the west coast of Ireland. No matches were made to images in smaller collections from Iceland, Nova Scotia, Greenland, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean. These findings show the value of data collected from whale watching vessels and the importance of collaboration between groups to allow investigation on an ocean basin scale. It is hoped that with the coordinated collection of more images from around the Atlantic, further insight might be gained into the movements of these widely ranging animals. Article in Journal/Newspaper Andenes Greenland Iceland North Atlantic Physeter macrocephalus Sperm whale Tromsø Cambridge University Press Greenland Norway Tromsø Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92 8 1751 1756 |
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Little is known about the movements of male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , in the North Atlantic. Recoveries of traditional harpoons and tags during commercial whaling indicated movements from Nova Scotia to Spain and from the Azores to Iceland and Spain. We compared collections of photo-identification images from different areas using the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sperm Whale Catalogue and the Eurphlukes Phlex/Match programs. The largest collections of identified males (number of individuals, start and end date for data collection shown in parentheses) are for the Azores (297, 1987–2008), Andenes (375, 1988–1996 and 2008), Tromsø (84, 2005–2008). There were six matches between Andenes and Tromsø (~25 nm), with three of these re-sighted in multiple years and three photo-identification matches from the Azores to Norway (~2400 nm). In all cases individuals first photographed in the Azores (in 1993, 1999 and 2003) were matched to images collected later in Tromsø (in 2007 and 2008). In 1997 a photo-identification image from Andenes matched a male stranded on the west coast of Ireland. No matches were made to images in smaller collections from Iceland, Nova Scotia, Greenland, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean. These findings show the value of data collected from whale watching vessels and the importance of collaboration between groups to allow investigation on an ocean basin scale. It is hoped that with the coordinated collection of more images from around the Atlantic, further insight might be gained into the movements of these widely ranging animals. |
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Steiner, Lisa Lamoni, Luca Acosta Plata, Marta Jensen, Silje-Kristin Lettevall, Erland Gordon, Jonathan |
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A link between male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , of the Azores and Norway |
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A link between male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , of the Azores and Norway |
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A link between male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , of the Azores and Norway |
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A link between male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , of the Azores and Norway |
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A link between male sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus , of the Azores and Norway |
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link between male sperm whales, physeter macrocephalus , of the azores and norway |
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