A note on minke whales (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae) in Uruguay: strandings review

A Visual Sighting and Acoustic Detections of Minke Whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae), in Nearshore Hawaiian Waters

Minke whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Lacépède), have been considered a rare species in Hawaiian waters due to limited sightings during visual and aerial surveys. However, our research suggests that they are more common than previously considered. In spring 2005, a combined visual-acoustic survey of cetaceans in Hawaiian waters resulted in the sighting of a minke whale within 22 km of Kaua‘...

Minke Whales

Minke whales maximise energy storage on their feeding grounds.

Seasonal trends in energy storage of the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), a capital breeder, were investigated in Iceland, a North Atlantic feeding ground. The aim was to better understand the energy acquisition strategies of minke whales and the energetic costs that different reproductive classes face during the breeding season. We modelled total blubber volume, using blubber thicknes...

A Pygmy Blue Whale (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae) in the Inshore Waters of New Caledonia

The occurrence of a blue whale is reported for the first time for the New Caledonian archipelago. The whale, a juvenile male in poor condition, entered the shallow inshore waters of the coral reef lagoon (22 0 19-24' S, 166 46-52' E) where it spent at least 1 month until it was killed by whaler sharks on 27 January 2002. Live observations, examination of photographic documents, and skull osteol...

sonars and strandings: Are beaked Whales the Aquatic Acoustic Canary?

Introduction On the morning of 15 March, 2000, phones began ringing in Washington, Virginia, and Massachusetts. Emails flew between the USA and the Bahamas. The event behind these communications was a mass stranding of beaked whales (Ziphiidae) in the northern Bahamas extending from Grand Bahama to the tip of Abaco (Evans and England, 2001). Over two days, 17 whales were reported on shore, of w...