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ArticleRoyal Society open science2024

Interbreeding area movement of an adult humpback whale between the east Pacific Ocean and southwest Indian Ocean.

Ekaterina Kalashnikova, Natalia Botero-Acosta, Esteban Duque Mesa, Mar Palanca Gascón, Patrick Lyne, Ted Cheeseman, Alex Vogel, Amy Kennedy, Aylin Akkaya

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

9 authors.

Ekaterina KalashnikovaTanzania Cetaceans Program, Zanzibar, Tanzania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8232-1825
Natalia Botero-AcostaMacuáticos Colombia Foundation. Carrera, Medellín 86 #30A-46, Colombia.
Esteban Duque MesaJardín Botánico del Pacífico Mecana, Chocó, Colombia.
Mar Palanca GascónMadre Agua Colombia, Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colombia.
Patrick LyneDMAD-Marine Mammals Research Association Erenkoy, Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8326-5180
Ted CheesemanMarine Ecology Research Centre, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5805-2431
Alex VogelHappywhale, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Amy KennedyCooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies (CICOES), University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA.
Aylin AkkayaDMAD-Marine Mammals Research Association Erenkoy, Istanbul, Turkey.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humpback whales undertake one of the longest known migrations of any mammal. While their migration route generally extends between latitudes, the breeding stocks are longitudinally separated and display high site fidelity to their feeding grounds. While there is an indication of certain breeding stocks overlapping with each other, the current information on the migration routes of humpback whales within the Southern Hemisphere limits our understanding of the extent of this exchange. Presented here is the longest documented great-circle distance between sightings on wintering grounds of two different ocean basins of an adult male humpback whale, involving two breeding stocks in the eastern Pacific (stock G) and southwest Indian Ocean (stock C). These two stocks are separated by a minimum of 120° longitude, and a great-circle distance of 13 046 km. This extreme distance movement demonstrates behavioural plasticity, which may play an important role in adaptation strategies to global environmental changes and perhaps be an evolved response to various pressures, underlining the importance of consolidation of global datasets on wide-ranging marine mammals.

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breeding groundseastern Pacific Oceanhumpback whalesmigrationphoto-identificationsouthwest Indian Ocean

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PMID39665094
PMCPMC11631461

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