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Cetacean surfacing behaviour is a grouping of movement types that cetaceans make at the water's surface in addition to breathing. Cetaceans have developed and use surface behaviours for many functions such as display, feeding and communication.
Project CETI is an international initiative to understand the acoustic communication of sperm whales using advances in artificial intelligence. [1] [2] The project has an interdisciplinary scientific board including marine biologists, artificial intelligence researchers, roboticists, theoretical computer scientists, and linguists.
(Robert) Erich Hoyt (born September 28, 1950) is a whale and dolphin researcher, conservationist, lecturer and author of 26 books and more than 700 reports, articles and papers.
Articles on almost every species have been started. Most species have their own article with the exception of mesoplodont whales (too little information known for separate articles) and humpback dolphins (the lack of consensus from the taxonomists makes difficult to know what species to choose). Better to do at the genus level to avoid passing ...
[23] [24] The vessel is no longer contracted by the Institute of Cetacean Research, and it resumed commercial hunting in Japan's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone on July 1, 2019. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] A subsidy of 5.1 billion yen (US$47.31 million) was budgeted for commercial whaling in 2019, [ 28 ] and was expected to hunt 227 ...
The following is a list of currently existing (or, in the jargon of taxonomy) 'extant' species of the infraorder cetacea (for extinct cetacean species, see the list of extinct cetaceans). The list is organized taxonomically into parvorders , superfamilies when applicable, families , subfamilies when applicable, genus , and then species.
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The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia.