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Using Models of Social Transmission to Examine the Spread of Longline Depredation Behavior among Sperm Whales in the Gulf of Alaska

Fishing, farming and ranching provide opportunities for predators to prey on resources concentrated by humans, a behavior termed depredation. In the Gulf of Alaska, observations of sperm whales depredating on fish caught on demersal longline gear dates back to the 1970s, with reported incidents incr...

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Autores principales: Schakner, Zachary A., Lunsford, Chris, Straley, Janice, Eguchi, Tomoharu, Mesnick, Sarah L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25272019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109079