Estimates of Abundance and Trend of Chilean Blue Whales off Isla de Chiloé, Chile

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Galletti Vernazzani, Barbara, Jackson, Jennifer A., Cabrera, Elsa, Carlson, Carole A., Brownell, Robert L.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2017
• Subjects: Research Article; Chiloé; isla Grande; Balaenoptera musculus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5231374/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28081160; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168646

Since 1970, blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) have been seen feeding in the waters off southern Chile during the summer and autumn (December to May). Investigation of the genetic, acoustic and morphological characteristics of these blue whales shows that they are a distinct but unnamed subspecies,...