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Prolonged maternal investment in northern bottlenose whales alters our understanding of beaked whale reproductive life history

Nursing and weaning periods are poorly understood in cetaceans due to the difficulty of assessing underwater behaviour in the wild. However, the onset and completion of weaning are critical turning points for individual development and survival, with implications for a species’ life history includin...

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Autores principales: Feyrer, Laura Joan, Zhao, Shu ting, Whitehead, Hal, Matthews, Cory J. D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32574188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235114