ArticleEcology and evolution2025
Aseasonal Migration of a Northern Bottlenose Whale Provides Support for the Skin Molt Migration Hypothesis.
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- Temperature and Ultraviolet Radiation Influence the Skin Microbiome of Humpback Whales.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Long-Term Depth Records of Satellite-Tagged Northern Bottlenose Whales Reveal Extraordinary Dive Capabilities.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
Why animals migrate is a fundamental question in biology. While the adaptive significance of some animal migrations is well understood (e.g., to find food, to pursue more-favorable habitats, to spawn, or to give birth), others remain unknown. The adaptive significance of whale migration, for example, is unresolved and multiple hypotheses have been proposed to explain it. One recently proposed hypothesis that challenges the long-standing "feeding-breeding" whale migration model is a "feeding-molting" model, where whales undertake latitudinal migrations to warmer waters to molt skin. In July 2019, we attached satellite-tracking tags to northern bottlenose whales (
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