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• Main Authors: Mario Alvarado-Rybak, Frederick Toro, Paulette Abarca, Enrique Paredes, Sonia Español-Jiménez, Mauricio Seguel
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Oceanography; Marine Biology; Marine Geoscience; Biological Oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Marine Engineering; Burmesteir’s porpoise; cetaceans; Chile; mortality; pathology; stranding; Sandy Beach; Balaenoptera physalus; Orca; Orcinus orca; Southern Right Whale; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00684.s001; https://figshare.com/articles/figure/Image_1_Pathological_Findings_in_Cetaceans_Sporadically_Stranded_Along_the_Chilean_Coast_jpeg/12839780

Chile has one of the largest coastlines in the world with at least 50% of the world cetacean species occurring within its jurisdictional waters. However, little is known regarding the health status and main causes of death in cetaceans off continental Chile. In this report, we summarize the major pa...