The age, sex, and sexual maturity of individual animals are key parameters in assessing
wild populations and informing conservation management strategies. These parameters …

Age at maturity is hard to estimate for species that cannot be directly marked or observed
throughout their lives and yet is a key demographic parameter that is needed to assess the …

Killer whales in the Eastern Canadian Arctic (ECA) prey on narwhal, beluga, bowhead
whales and seals, while further south in the north-west Atlantic (NWA), killer whales off the …

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are widely distributed throughout the world's oceans, yet little
has been documented about their stranding patterns. Knowledge of stranding patterns …

Isotopic time series from sequentially sampled growth layer groups (GLGs) in marine
mammal teeth can be combined to build chronologies allowing assessment of isotopic …

Accurate measures of lifespan and age-specific mortality are important both for
understanding life-history evolution and informing conservation and population …

In January 2013, a group of killer whales (Orcinus orca) was discovered in an ice
entrapment in eastern Hudson Bay, Canada. The whales escaped the entrapment after …

The Irrawaddy dolphin is a species at the top of the food chain, but its population is currently
endangered. Hence, the critical need to take effective conservation measures for Irrawaddy …

In the early 1950s, probably 1955, a group of killer whales (Orcinus orca) became entrapped
in developing landfast sea ice in northeast Foxe Basin in the eastern Canadian Arctic …

The great white shark is endothermic. Ecophysiology in relation to endothermy is largely
unknown yet may disclose life history ecology. An ontogenetic approach using the allometric …