Bottlenose dolphins tossing jellyfish! But why?

The following links expand on points about the Gulf of Mexico whale in John Ososky’s talk at the University of Florida Gainesville on 31 October 2024:

For more information about marine mammal stranding networks please visit https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/marine-mammal-health-and-stranding-response-program.

 

Whales on the Brink Symposium, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, November 2023

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQmxS2U3B6KaUPksTqmC2BLUPwXFEHnCN

 

100 Scientists Open Letter on the Gulf of Mexico whale to the Biden Administration

https://www.neaq.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Scientist-statement.-GoM-whale.-Oct.-2022.pdf

 

Great Whale Conservancy – Economic Value of Living Whales

The Economic Value of Living Whales | GWC | Great Whale Conservancy

 

To learn about the Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whale, current status, methods of research, and threats to its existence please visit: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/rices-whale

 

How a Whale Skull at the Smithsonian Became a Beacon for Marine Mammal Conservation

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2023/11/16/how-a-whale-skull-at-the-smithsonian-became-a-beacon-for-marine-mammal-conservation/

 

Open letter regarding Cuvier’s whale and other whale common names

It’s time to rename Ziphius cavirostris the “goose-beaked whale” – CIMA Research Foundation (cimafoundation.org)

https://www.cimafoundation.org/en/news/its-time-to-rename-ziphius-cavirostris-the-goose-beaked-whale/#:~:text=The%20authors%20request%20a%20change,problematic%20legacy%20of%20Georges%20Cuvier.

We Are All Whalers by The Hopeless Idiot (soundcloud.com)

https://soundcloud.com/thehopelessidiot/we-are-all-whalers

 History of whale research and conservation at the Smithsonian video playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQmxS2U3B6KafwKbPd5qSunMSZjrmw908

 NOAA Rice’s whale

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/rices-whale

 Last Great American Whale by Lou Reed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oua4ysqIFlY

 Gulf by Jack E. Davis

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jack-e-davis

Additional links for John Ososky’s NCSU Center for Marine Sciences and Technology talk “Utilizing Smithsonian Cetacean Collections to Revise Taxonomy and Analyze Life History Traits” on February 28, 2025:

 

Only 50 Rice’s Whales Are Left. Can We Do Enough to Protect Them Before It’s Too Late? | Smithsonian

 

How an Eye-Popping Museum Specimen Boosted the Beleaguered Blue Whale | Smithsonian

 

Scholars@Duke publication: Historical baleen plates indicate that once abundant Antarctic blue and fin whales demonstrated distinct migratory and foraging strategies.

 

How Whales Found Peace in War – bioGraphic

 

New killer whale species: Bigg’s and resident killer whales | NOAA Fisheries

 

(PDF) How to contend with paraphyly in the taxonomy of the delphinine cetaceans?

 

(PDF) Stenella clymene, a Rediscovered Tropical Dolphin of the Atlantic

 

Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) mitochondrial genomes from Senegal reveal geographic structure across the North Atlantic but provide no support for global long‐beaked clade – Becker – 2024 – Marine Mammal Science – Wiley Online Library

 

Skull morphology of bottlenose dolphins worldwide and patterns of adaptation between coastal and offshore environments – Oxford‐Smith – 2024 – Journal of Zoology – Wiley Online Library

 

Bottlenose Dolphins Along the East Coast Proposed to be a Different Species | NOAA Fisheries

 

Description of a new species of beaked whale (Berardius) found in the North Pacific | Scientific Reports