Closing the air gap: the use of drones for studying wildlife ecophysiology

A Yaney‐Keller, RR McIntosh, RH Clarke… - Biological …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Techniques for non‐invasive sampling of ecophysiological data in wild animals have been
developed in response to challenges associated with studying captive animals or using …

Maternal investment, body condition and calf growth in humpback whales

M van Aswegen, A Szabo, JJ Currie… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Given recent declines in North Pacific humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
reproductive output and calf survival, there is additional urgency to better understand how …

Drone-based photogrammetry reveals differences in humpback whale body condition and mass across North Atlantic foraging grounds

C Napoli, N Hirtle, J Stepanuk… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Baleen whales are key consumers in marine ecosystems and can serve as ecosystem
sentinels. Body condition, defined as an individual's energy stores relative to its structural …

Population changes in a Southern Ocean krill predator point towards regional Antarctic sea ice declines

M Germishuizen, M Vichi, E Vermeulen - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
While foraging, marine predators integrate information about the environment often across
wide-ranging oceanic foraging grounds and reflect these in population parameters. One …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme capital breeding for giants: Effects of body size on humpback whale energy expenditure and fasting endurance

F Christiansen, PT Madsen, V Andrews-Goff… - Ecological …, 2025 - Elsevier
Baleen whales are extreme capital breeders, capable of fasting for more than half a year
while migrating thousands of kilometres and nursing rapidly growing offspring that …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the effects of underwater noise from two vessels on the behaviour of short-finned pilot whales.

P Arranz, R De la Cruz-Modino, KR Sprogis - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Multiple whale-watching vessels may operate around cetaceans at any one time, and
targeted animals may experience underwater noise effects. We hypothesised that the …

Prey consumption of bowhead whales in West Greenland estimated from drone measurements of body size and condition

F Christiansen, OM Tervo, MP Heide-Jørgensen… - Polar Biology, 2024 - Springer
Understanding the energy requirement and prey consumption of Arctic predators is crucial to
assess their vulnerability to climate change. The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is the …

[BOOK][B] Abundance and demographic parameters of spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris subsp.) off Oʻahu's Waiʻanae Coast

L McPherson - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The occurrence and behavior of spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris subsp.) off
Waiʻanae, Oʻahu are well-described, yet a data deficit on their abundance and trajectory …