WHY DO BALEEN WHALES MIGRATE?1

PJ Corkeron, RC Connor - Marine Mammal Science, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The annual migrations of baleen whales are a conspicuous but unexplained feature of their
behavioral repertoire. Some hypotheses offered to explain whale migration focus on direct …

The social and reproductive biology of humpback whales: an ecological perspective

PJ Clapham - Mammal Review, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Existing knowledge of the social organization, mating system and reproduction of Humpback
Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) is reviewed to assess how our current understanding of …

Evidence for a sex-segregated migration in the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

MR Brown, PJ Corkeron, PT Hale… - … of the Royal …, 1995 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Existing population models for humpback whales assume that all individuals within a
population undertake the annual migration from feeding areas in high latitudes to breeding …

Population structure of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA variation among humpback whales in the North Pacific

CS Baker, L Medrano‐Gonzalez… - Molecular …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The population structure of variation in a nuclear actin intron and the control region of
mitochondrial DNA is described for humpback whales from eight regions in the North Pacific …

Migratory timing of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the central North Pacific varies with age, sex and reproductive status

AS Craig, LM Herman, CM Gabriele, AA Pack - Behaviour, 2003 - JSTOR
Humpback whales migrate seasonally between high-latitude summer feeding grounds and
low-latitude winter breeding grounds. Identification photographs of humpback whales were …

Sex differences in site fidelity and migration of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) to the Hawaiian Islands

AS Craig, LM Herman - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1997 - cdnsciencepub.com
Les Rorquals à bosse (Megaptera novaeangliae) font des migrations saisonnières
importantes de leurs sites d'alimentation de haute latitude en été à leurs sites de …

Interchange and isolation of humpback whales off California and other North Pacific feeding grounds

J Calambokidis, GH Steiger, JR EvENsoN… - Marine Mammal …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Humpback whales feed in several high‐latitude areas of the North Pacific. We examined the
interchange of humpback whales between one of these areas, off California, and those in …

Cetacean occurrence in the Gulf of Alaska from long-term passive acoustic monitoring

A Rice, A Širović, JS Trickey, AJ Debich, RS Gottlieb… - Marine Biology, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Gulf of Alaska is an important habitat for a diverse array of marine mammals,
many of which were severely depleted by historical whaling. To study current cetacean …

Seasonal presence and potential influence of humpback whales on wintering Pacific herring populations in the Gulf of Alaska

JM Straley, JR Moran, KM Boswell… - Deep Sea Research …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study addressed the lack of recovery of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) in Prince
William Sound, Alaska, in relation to humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) predation …

Resightings of humpback whales in Hawaiian waters over spans of 10–32 years: Site fidelity, sex ratios, calving rates, female demographics, and the dynamics of …

LM Herman, AA Pack, K Rose, A Craig… - Marine Mammal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
From a database of approximately 5,000 Hawaiian humpback whales identified
photographically between 1976 and 2010, we extracted 71 males and 39 females having …