Migratory round-trip of individually identified humpback whales at the Strait of Magellan: clues on transit times and phylopatry to destinations Ciclo migratorio de ballenas jorobadas individualizadas del estrecho de Magallanes: indicios sobre la duración de la migración y filopatría en los destinos

• Main Authors: JUAN J CAPELLA, JORGE GIBBONS, LILIÁN FLÓREZ-GONZÁLEZ, MARTHA LLANO, CARLOS VALLADARES, VALERIA SABAJ, YERKO A VILINA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2008
• Subjects: Colombia; ballenas jorobadas; migración; foto identificación; estrecho de Magallanes; ADNmt; humpback whales; migration; photo-identification; Strait of Magellan; Zoology; QL1-991; Botany; QK1-989; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Pacific; Jorobada; Ballenas; Magallanes; Estrecho; Antarc*; Ballena jorobada
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/9940f9c3b36040778b2685d126d27424

Humpback whales undertake seasonal migration between productive high-latitude areas where they feed in summer and low-latitude tropical waters where mating and calving occur during winter. In the eastern south Pacific, the species breeds off Colombia and Ecuador, and feeds primarily in the western A...