tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117766536783887540.post5479388475286091179..comments2024-02-27T20:53:49.157-05:00Comments on Biodiversity Science: An old new whale speciesDirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05686023489012728029noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117766536783887540.post-3075231031475794182014-02-15T19:28:32.566-05:002014-02-15T19:28:32.566-05:00Scott Baker one of the authors of the study tried ...Scott Baker one of the authors of the study tried to post in the comments. Apparently that didn't work. I thought I do it for him:<br />******************************************<br />Thanks for the quote from William Beebe, describing the domain of beaked whales, species which regularly dive to depths greater than 'one half mile down'. <br /><br />Readers might also be interested in evidence that the newly re-discoverd beaked whale, Mesoplodon hotaula, is occasionally consumed by people of the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati<br /><br />Baker, C.S., A. Hutt, K. Thompson, M.L. Dalebout, J. Robins, R.L. Brownell and G.S. Stone. 2013. Species identity and human consumption of beaked whales in the Gilbert Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Animal Conservation 16:641-647.<br /><br />http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12039/abstract<br /><br />********************************************Dirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05686023489012728029noreply@blogger.com