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Reproductive Tactics in Baleen Whales
While a variety of reproductive tactics are readily witnessed in odontocetes, such behaviors can be far more elusive in baleen whales and in some...
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Baleen Whale Migration
Baleen whale migrationMigration emerges as a foundational theme of cetacean behavioral ecology and the relationships that bind humans and whales...
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First filter feeding in the Early Triassic: cranial morphological convergence between Hupehsuchus and baleen whales
Modern baleen whales are unique as large-sized filter feeders, but their roles were replicated much earlier by diverse marine reptiles of the...
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Observing Baleen Whales
There is a saying that goes: “A picture is worth a thousand words.” This book is a simple storybook of sorts, full of thousands of words about baleen...
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Baleen Whale Acoustic Ethology
There has been enormous growth in technical mechanisms for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing baleen whale acoustic behaviors. Organizing and...
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Testing for Convergent Evolution in Baleen Whale Cochleae
Mysticetes (baleen whales) include the largest animals on Earth and are renowned for their songs and long-distance communication. Even so, the scope...
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Anatomical, Ontogenetic, and Genomic Homologies Guide Reconstructions of the Teeth-to-Baleen Transition in Mysticete Whales
The transition in Mysticeti (Cetacea) from capture of individual prey using teeth to bulk filtering batches of small prey using baleen ranks among...
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Social Organization of Baleen Whales
Baleen whalesBaleen whales are specialized to find and exploit preyPrey that form dense patches seasonally within broad ocean areas. Most populations...
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Growth of baleen along the baleen rack is constant in balaenopterid whales
Werth et al. (Werth et al. Polar Biol 43:707–723, 2020) propose that in all mysticete whales the growth rate of baleen varies with the position they...
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Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales
Teeth are the primary tool used by most mammals to capture and process food. Over the lifetime of an individual, they progressively wear through...
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Feeding Strategies of Baleen Whales Through a Behavioral Ecology and Evolutionary Lens
Baleen whales are some of the largest animals to have lived on the planet. They have evolved a feedingFeeding mechanism that allows for large amounts...
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Culture and Social Learning in Baleen Whales
CultureCulture, the sharingSharing of behaviorsBehaviors or information within a community acquired through some form of social learningSocial...
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Estimation of the feeding record of pregnant Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of baleen plates
Antarctic minke whales ( Balaenoptera bonaerensis ) are migratory capital breeders that experience intensive summer feeding on Antarctic krill ( Euphausi...
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A Preliminary Comparison on Faecal Microbiomes of Free-Ranging Large Baleen (Balaenoptera musculus, B. physalus, B. borealis) and Toothed (Physeter macrocephalus) Whales
Large baleen and toothed whales play crucial ecological roles in oceans; nonetheless, very little is known about their intestinal microbiomes. Based...
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Mass strandings of seven toothed and baleen whale species in Northern Norway in March 2020 call for further investigation
Monitoring whale strandings are a key aspect of ecosystem management as stranded animals can provide indications on ecosystem health, pollution and...
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Baleen turnover and gut transit in mysticete whales and its environmental implications
Baleen, a unique oral α-keratin, has flat cortical layers enclosing hollow horn tubules. Baleen grows continuously to replace erosive loss from...
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Order within chaos: potential migratory strategies and individual associations in fin whales feeding off Iceland
BackgroundThe life cycle of most baleen whales involves annual migrations from low-latitude breeding grounds to high latitude feeding grounds. In...
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The genome of the pygmy right whale illuminates the evolution of rorquals
BackgroundBaleen whales are a clade of gigantic and highly specialized marine mammals. Their genomes have been used to investigate their complex...
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Humpback whale suckling behavior: an insight into the mother-offspring strategy in mysticetes
AbstractDespite its biological importance, the nursing behavior in baleen whales has been poorly documented mainly because of the challenges in...
