Traditional Knowledge of the Ecology of Beluga Whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in

ABSTRACT. The first systematic effort to document traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Russia was conducted in the villages of Sireniki, Novoe Chaplino, Yanrakinnot, and Uelen, in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The findings describe migratory and local m...

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Main Authors: The Northern Bering Sea, Nikolai I. Mymrin, The Communities Of Novoe Chaplino, Yanrakinnot, Henry P. Huntington
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1998
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Key words
beluga whales
white whales
Delphinapterus leucas
Bering Sea
Chukchi Sea
Chukotka
ecology
traditional ecological knowledge
Chaplino
Sireniki
Uelen
Arctic
Beluga
Beluga*
Chukchi
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Sirenik*
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.525.2169
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic52-1-62.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT. The first systematic effort to document traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Russia was conducted in the villages of Sireniki, Novoe Chaplino, Yanrakinnot, and Uelen, in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The findings describe migratory and local movements, feeding, calving, ecological interactions, and human influences on distribution and behavior. The results add considerable detail to published accounts of belugas in Russian waters of the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Among these are descriptions of avoidance and habituation responses to anthropogenic noise, which appear to depend in part on association with hunting activities. The authors observe that most of the TEK documented in this study came from older hunters, and that the collective pool of traditional knowledge in the region is disappearing.

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