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First documented movement of a humpback whale between the Cape Verde Islands and West Greenland

Published:2024-03 Issue:3 Volume:14 Page:
ISSN:2045-7758
Container-title:Ecology and Evolution
language:en
Short-container-title:Ecology and Evolution

Author:

Chosson Valerie¹^ORCID,Wyss Virginie²^ORCID,Jann Beatrice³,Wenzel Frederick W.⁴⁵^ORCID,Sigurðsson Guðjón Már¹^ORCID,Simon Malene⁶^ORCID,Hansen Rikke Guldborg⁷^ORCID,Jones Lindsey S.⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Marine and Freshwater Research Institute Hafnarfjörður Iceland

2. Swiss Cetacean Society Lausanne Switzerland

3. Swiss Whale Society Astano Switzerland

4. Allied Whale College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor Maine USA

5. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center Woods Hole Massachusetts USA

6. Greenland Climate Research Centre Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Nuuk Greenland

7. Greenland Institute of Natural Resources København K Denmark

Abstract

AbstractThe endangered population of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) breeding and calving off the Cape Verde Islands (CVI) are known to migrate to feeding areas located along the eastern margin of the North Atlantic Ocean (Iceland, and Norway). Here, we report for the first time a confirmed migration of an individual humpback whale from CVI breeding ground to a western North Atlantic feeding ground of West Greenland. This individual humpback, which was photographed and identified off the coast of West Greenland in 2021, was previously documented in CVI 22 years before (1999). An annual subsistence hunt for humpbacks occurs in West Greenland and the resighting at this location with a humpback whale from CVI has strong implications for the conservation efforts of the small CVI population.

Publisher

Wiley

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.11152

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