Center for Whale Research

Recent papers from Center for Whale Research

1. Humpback Highs and Lows Amid Shifting Seas and a Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave: Whale Demographics in the Main Hawaiian Islands, 2002–2023Marine Mammal Science · 2026
2. Environmental DNA reveals potential trophic links at male sperm whale foraging sites in Northern NorwayFrontiers in Marine Science · 2026
3. Using Drone‐Derived Imagery to Describe Prey Sharing Behaviors in Two Piscivorous Resident Killer Whale PopulationsMarine Mammal Science · 2026
4. Group size modulates kinship dynamics and selection on social traitsEvolution Letters · 2026
5. Barriers to Completion of Suicide Risk Screening by Nurses in Acute and Intensive Care: A Qualitative Focus Group StudyJournal of Nursing Care Quality · 2026
6. Geographical and Seasonal Distribution of Australian Pygmy Right Whales ( Caperea marginata ) Based on Passive AcousticsMarine Mammal Science · 2026
7. Energetic benefits of resting behaviour in humpback whale mother–calf pairs revealed by biologging and UAS-photogrammetryConservation Physiology · 2026
8. How Robust is Eschrichtius robustus ? A Novel Photographic Index of Body Condition From Boat‐Based Photographs of Gray WhalesMarine Mammal Science · 2025
9. Sexually antagonistic selection, X-chromosome relatedness and the evolution of menopause in killer whalesBiology Letters · 2025
10. An introduction to generative network models and their use in animal sociality researchAnimal Behaviour · 2025
11. Biomimetic robots reveal flexible adjustment of sexual signalling in a wild invertebrateProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2025
12. Advances in deep learning-driven photo identification and meta analysis of cetaceans in large data repositoriesEcological Informatics · 2025
13. Manufacture and use of allogrooming tools by wild killer whalesCurrent Biology · 2025
14. Bayesian Estimation of Individual Gray Whale Space Use Reveals Differential Exposure to StressorsEcology and Evolution · 2025
15. Non-stereotypy (to species) in mysticete downsweepsFrontiers in Remote Sensing · 2025
16. Bayesian inference of toothed whale lifespansBiological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2025
17. Separating Historical Catches Among Pygmy Blue Whale Populations Using Recent Song DetectionsMarine Mammal Science · 2025
18. Ocean basin-wide movement patterns of North Atlantic humpback whales˜The œjournal of cetacean research and management. Special issue · 2025
19. Spatiotemporal distribution of humpback whales off north-west Australia quantifying the Exmouth Gulf nursery areaAustralian Journal of Zoology · 2024
20. Behavioral responses of Bigg's and Southern Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) to uncrewed aerial vehicle‐based breath sample collectionMarine Mammal Science · 2024