Jooke Robbins

TL;DR: A striking pattern of horizontal transmission is presented: multiple song types spread rapidly and repeatedly in a unidirectional manner, like cultural ripples, eastward through the populations in the western and central South Pacific over an 11-year period.

TL;DR: This preliminary analysis suggests that carcasses are recovered, on an average, from only 2% (range: 0–6.2%) of cetacean deaths, which means the true death toll could be 50 times the number of carcasses recovered, given no additional information.

TL;DR: This is the first epigenetic age estimation method for a wild animal species and the approach taken for developing it can be applied to many other nonmodel organisms.

TL;DR: Results from a large-scale, capture–recapture study of humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae in the North Atlantic show that migration timing is influenced by feeding ground origin and there is evidence for sexual segregation in migration.

TL;DR: The research suggests that the skin bacteria may be connected to humpback health and immunity and could possibly serve as a useful index for health and skin disorder monitoring of threatened and endangered marine mammals.