Movements of satellite-monitored humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, from the Cook Islands

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 679-685

  Hauser, Nan ^a   Zerbini, Alexandre N ^b,c   Geyer, Ygor ^c   Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter ^d   Clapham, Phil ^a,b  

^a SOUTH PACIFIC WHALE RESEARCH CONSORTIUM   (Cook Islands)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^c Instituto Aqualie   (Brazil)

^d GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; MOVEMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WHALE;

COOK ISLANDS;

MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 77954523013     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2009.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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