IMPORTANCE OF ORIENTAL CANARY ISLANDS AS BREEDING GROUND FOR BEAKED WHALES, BASED ON SIGHTING AND STRANDING DATA

The combination of extended dive capacities, cryptic behavior and the apparent low abundance of the majority of the 21 recognized species (Barlow et al., 2006; Dalebout et al., 2002), make the deep-diving toothed-whales of the Ziphiidae Family, among the least known of marine mammals. Most of our in...

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toothed whales
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Summary:The combination of extended dive capacities, cryptic behavior and the apparent low abundance of the majority of the 21 recognized species (Barlow et al., 2006; Dalebout et al., 2002), make the deep-diving toothed-whales of the Ziphiidae Family, among the least known of marine mammals. Most of our information about beaked whales has come from strandings. At least 50 cases of atypical beaked whale mass strandings have been recorded around the

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