The environmental factors determining temporal distributions of cetaceans in Mossel Bay, South Africa

• Main Author: Levy, David
• Other Authors: Blamey, Laura K, Elwen, Simon, James, Bridget
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2017
• Subjects: Applied Marine Science; Gam; Indian; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; Southern Right Whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25346; https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/25346/1/thesis_sci_2017_levy_david.pdf

A variety of cetacean species make use of the bays along the South African coast for different purposes, including feeding, mating and calving. Sightings of five species of cetaceans were recorded from shore based locations between February 2010 and August 2014 in Mossel Bay, Western Cape. In this s...