The ability to accurately gauge the body condition of free‐swimming cetaceans is invaluable
in population and conservation biology, due to the direct implications that this measure has …

Contemporary studies on aging and longevity have largely overlooked the role that
adaptation plays in lifespan variation across species. Emerging evidence indicates that the …

Most baleen whales are capital breeders that use stored energy acquired on foraging
grounds to finance the costs of migration and reproduction on breeding grounds. Body …

Blue whales need to time their migration from their breeding grounds to their feeding
grounds to avoid missing peak prey abundances, but the cues they use for this are …

Over a decade passed between Friedman's discovery of the mammalian leptin gene and its
cloning in fish and amphibians. Since 2005, the concept of gene synteny conservation (vs …

Objectives Sexual selection typically centers on bodily and psychological traits. Non-bodily
traits ranging from housing and vehicles through art to social media can, however, influence …

Health information is essential for the conservation management of whale species.
However, assessing the health of free‐ranging whales is challenging as samples are …

Multiple stressors caused by human-induced disturbances can affect the foraging
opportunities of cetaceans, potentially depleting their energy stores, and ultimately impact …

Biopsy has recently become a preferred protocol for sampling the skin and blubber of many
cetacean species, although it is desirable to collect as minimally invasive as possible. Here …

Blubber is a modified subcutaneous adipose tissue in marine mammals that provides
energy storage, thermoregulation, hydrodynamic locomotion, and buoyancy. Blubber …