Dear colleagues,
My co-authors and I are pleased to announce new paper about encounters of Cuvier’s beaked whales in Russia:
Fomin S.V., Ryazanov S.D., Usatov I.A., Burkanov V.N. 2017. Encounters with the Cuvier’s beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier,
1823 (Cetacea: Ziphiidae), in waters off eastern Kamchatka and the
Commander Islands // Russian Journal of Marine Biology 43(3):245-248
Abstract:
The biology of the Cuvier’s beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier,
1823, in Russian waters remains almost unstudied. The species is
encountered rarely elsewhere in the seas of Russia, except for the
waters off the Commander Islands. Currently, some researchers
express doubt about the accuracy of the known Cuvier’s beaked whale
records in the region. This report provides information on the confirmed
encounters with Cuvier’s beaked whale off the Commander Islands and
eastern Kamchatka.