Reproductive Parameters of Female Long-finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melas edwardii) from the Southwestern Atlantic

• Main Authors: Soto, Florencia Anabella, Grandi, Maria Florencia, Garcia, Nestor Anibal, Crespo, Enrique Alberto, Dans, Silvana Laura
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Sinica
• Subjects: AGE AT SEXUAL MATURITY; BREEDING CYCLE; FERTILITY; LENGTH AT SEXUAL MATURITY; OVARIAN ACTIVITY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Chubut; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/66612

Mass strandings represent a valuable source of information, especially when it comes to difficult-to-access pelagic species, such as Globicephala melas edwardii. We collected reproductive organs from 27 female pilot whales stranded in Caleta Malaspina, Chubut, Argentina. Our main objective was to an...