Pygmy blue whale movements between Australia and Indonesia are published
Satellite telemetry from eleven pygmy blue whales tagged off Western Australia is published, with tracks of 8 to 308 days covering a mean of 3,009 km and a maximum of 14,101 km. It is the most detailed migration record for any blue whale subspecies, and the contrast with the Antarctic subspecies - two published tracks in total - is a statement about research access rather than about the animals.
Observed — measured or witnessed, with the observation cited.
Subjects
- Pygmy Blue Whale (B. m. brevicauda) · species · Indian Ocean and southern Pacific · not located
- Satellite Telemetry Tagging of Large Whales · technology · Deployed on multiple blue whale populations · not located
Evidence
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Migratory Movements of Pygmy Blue Whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) between Australia and Indonesia as Revealed by Satellite Telemetry
Eleven pygmy blue whales tagged off Western Australia were tracked for between 8 and 308 days, covering a mean distance of 3,009 km (SD 892) with individual tracks from 832 km to 14,101 km, moving between Australian and Indonesian waters. V55 verification basis: these figures were returned in the search result carrying the paper's abstract and attributed to it.
PLOS ONE; Double and colleagues · 2014 · Verified
PLOS ONE; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981711/
Recorded on Pygmy Blue Whale (B. m. brevicauda)
- Satellite tagging of eastern North Pacific blue whales begins
- Tagged whales confirm the Gulf of California as a wintering ground
- Pygmy blue whale movements between Australia and Indonesia are published
- The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
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