False killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) around the main Hawaiian Islands: Long-term site fidelity, inter-island movements, and association patterns

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 591-612

  Baird, Robin W ^a   Gorgone, Antoinette M ^b   McSweeney, Daniel J ^c   Webster, Daniel L ^c   Salden, Dan R ^d   Deakos, Mark H ^e   Ligon, Allan D ^f   Schorr, Gregory S ^a   Barlow, Jay ^g   Mahaffy, Sabre D ^a,c  

^a CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

^b NOAA: Southeast Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^c Wild Whale Research Foundation   (United States)

^d Hawaii Whale Research Foundation   (United States)

^e Hawaii Association for Marine Education and Research Inc   (United States)

^f Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary   (United States)

^g NOAA SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

False killer whale; Hawai'i; Movements; Pseudorca crassidens; Site fidelity; Social organization

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; ISOLATED POPULATION; MOVEMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SITE FIDELITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SURVEY; WHALE;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ORCINUS ORCA; PSEUDORCA; PSEUDORCA CRASSIDENS;

EID: 47649123443     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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