Beluga whale (delphinapterus leucas) behaviour in the presence of whale-watching vessels

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    Belugas feed, moult, and rear their young likely in the same estuaries each year (Brown Gladden et_al, 1997; Brown Gladden et_al, 1999), perhaps returning to these locations for social reasons more than any one environmental factor (Westdal et_al, 2022). The port wall was used for control behaviour observations when no vessels were within 300 metres of the focal groups of beluga whales. Using teams of two observers, a focal group of belugas was randomly selected by counting from left to right the number of groups visible in a 180-degree arc forward of the . . .

     

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