Rice’s whales in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: call variation and occurrence beyond the known core habitat

• Published in: Endangered Species Research
• Main Authors: Soldevilla, MS, Debich, AJ, Garrison, LP, Hildebrand, JA, Wiggins, SM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2022
• Subjects: Life on Land; Rice's whale; Balaenoptera ricei; Gulf of Mexico; Bryde's whale; Balaenoptera edeni; Passive acoustic monitoring; Distribution; Environmental Sciences; Biological Sciences; Ecology; Moan; baleen whale
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hg2g51c; https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01196

The endangered Rice’s whaleBalaenoptera ricei, with fewer than 100 individuals remaining, is the only year-round resident baleen whale found in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and occurs primarily along the northeastern shelf break near De Soto Canyon. Historical whaling records and predictive density mode...