ARCTIC Photographic Reidentification of a Bowhead Whale in Davis Strait
Baffin Island, on 28 September 1986 was reidentified from a photograr taken off West Greenland on 10 April 1990. The “recapture ” distance was about 460 km across Davis Strait. The recapture is consistel with historical knowledge of the seasonal distribution of bowhead whales and is supportive of th...
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1991
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.561.8123 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic44-3-254.pdf |
Summary: | Baffin Island, on 28 September 1986 was reidentified from a photograr taken off West Greenland on 10 April 1990. The “recapture ” distance was about 460 km across Davis Strait. The recapture is consistel with historical knowledge of the seasonal distribution of bowhead whales and is supportive of the hypothesis that bowheads circulate with] the Baffin Bay- Davis Stait area as part of a discrete stock. |
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