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From a calf’s perspective: humpback whale nursing behavior on two US feeding grounds

Nursing influences growth rate and overall health of mammals; however, the behavior is difficult to study in wild cetaceans because it occurs below the surface and can thus be misidentified from surface observations. Nursing has been observed in humpback whales on the breeding and calving grounds, b...

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Autores principales: Tackaberry, Jennifer E., Cade, David E., Goldbogen, Jeremy A., Wiley, David N., Friedlaender, Ari S., Stimpert, Alison K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7060748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32181052
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8538