Channel: 🐋 Cetacea physiology

Cetaceans (/sɪˈteɪʃənz/; from Latin cetus 'whale', from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos) 'huge fish, sea monster') are an infraorder of aquatic mammals that includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Key characteristics are their fully aquatic lifestyle, streamlined body shape, often large size and exclusively carnivorous diet. They propel themselves through the water with powerful up-and-down movement of their tail which ends in a paddle-like fluke, using their flipper-shaped forelimbs to maneuver. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

2023 Articles

1 905 articles

Could this ancient whale be the heaviest animal ever?

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Analysis of Data Reception in the Communication Layer Applied to an Architecture of Mobile Sensor Networks in Marine Environments

  • Abigail Elizabeth Pallares-Calvo, Blanca Esther Carvajal-Gámez, Octavio Gutiérrez-Frías, …, Blanca Esther Carvajal-Gámez, Octavio Gutiérrez-Frías, Dante Mujica-Vargas
  • Sensors (Basel), 10.3390/s23125480
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Sound Reception in the Yangtze Finless Porpoise and Its Extension to a Biomimetic Receptor

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Diverse sleep strategies at sea

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Does rotation increase the acoustic field of view? Comparative models based on CT data of a live dolphin versus a dead dolphin

  • Chong Wei, Dorian Houser, Christine Erbe, …, Eszter Mátrai, Darlene R Ketten, James J Finneran
  • Bioinspir Biomim, 10.1088/1748-3190/acc43d
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Deployment of biologging tags on free swimming large whales using uncrewed aerial systems

  • David N Wiley, Christopher J Zadra, Ari S Friedlaender, …, K Alex Shorter, Jorge Urbán, Iain Kerr
  • None, 10.1098/rsos.221376
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Sleep: Hemispheres fight for dominance

  • Paul-Antoine Libourel, John A Lesku, Paul-Antoine Libourel, John A Lesku, Paul-Antoine Libourel, John A Lesku
  • Curr Biol, 10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.001
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Animal behavior: Killer whale mamas’ boys

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Echolocation clicks of free-ranging Indo-Pacific finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) in Hainan waters

  • Likun Zhao, Giacomo Giorli, Francesco Caruso, …, Zining Gong, Mingli Lin, Songhai Li
  • J Acoust Soc Am, 10.1121/10.0017655
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Latencies of click-evoked auditory responses in a harbor porpoise exceed the time interval between subsequent echolocation clicks

  • K Beedholm, M Ladegaard, P T Madsen, …, M Ladegaard, P T Madsen, P L Tyack
  • J Acoust Soc Am, 10.1121/10.0017163
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2022 Articles

230 articles

Erratum: Evaluation of kurtosis-corrected sound exposure level as a metric for predicting onset of hearing threshold shifts in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152, 295-301 (2022)]

  • A M von Benda-Beckmann, D R Ketten, F P A Lam, …, C A F de Jong, R A J Müller, R A Kastelein
  • J Acoust Soc Am, 10.1121/10.0016608
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The Distinctive Forehead Cleft of the Risso’s Dolphin (Grampus griseus) Hardly Affects Biosonar Beam Formation

  • Chong Wei, Lachlan G Gill, Christine Erbe, …, Christine Erbe, Adam B Smith, Wei-Cheng Yang
  • None, 10.3390/ani12243472
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Heterochronic maturation of anatomical plugs for protecting the airway in rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae)

  • Henrik Lauridsen, Charlotte Bie Thøstesen, Christina Carøe Ejlskov Pedersen, …, Peter Rask Møller, Daniel Klingberg Johansson, Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup
  • None, 10.1098/rsos.220459
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Acoustic identification and classification of four dolphin species in the Brazilian marine area affected by the largest tailings dam failure disaster

  • Thiago O S Amorim, Franciele R de Castro, Giovanne A Ferreira, …, Bruna R Duque, João P Mura, Artur Andriolo
  • J Acoust Soc Am, 10.1121/10.0016358
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Silbido profundo: An open source package for the use of deep learning to detect odontocete whistles

  • Peter C Conant, Pu Li, Xiaobai Liu, …, Douglas Gillespie, Eva-Marie Nosal, Marie A Roch
  • J Acoust Soc Am, 10.1121/10.0016631
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Epibiotic fauna of the Antarctic minke whale as a reliable indicator of seasonal movements

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Remarkable consistency of spinal cord microvasculature in highly adapted diving odontocetes

  • Megan L Miller, Hillary L Glandon, Michael S Tift, …, Michael S Tift, D Ann Pabst, Heather N Koopman
  • None, 10.3389/fphys.2022.1011869
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Comparative embryology of Delphinapterus leucas (beluga whale), Balaena mysticetus (bowhead whale), and Stenella attenuata (pan-tropical spotted dolphin) (Cetacea: Mammalia)

  • L M Gavazzi, L N Cooper, S Usip, …, Greg O’Corry-Crowe, Chih-Wei Hsu, Johannes Thewissen
  • J Morphol, 10.1002/jmor.21543
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Comparison of the marine soundscape before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in dolphin habitat in Sarasota Bay, FL

  • E G Longden, D Gillespie, D A Mann, …, A M Rycyk, R S Wells, P L Tyack
  • J Acoust Soc Am, 10.1121/10.0015366
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Ranging pattern development of a declining delphinid population: A potential cascade effect of vessel activities

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