Dear colleagues,
As part of a larger bioenergetic study on baleen whales, I am looking for data on right whale and humpback whale morphometrics and body condition from carcasses (strandings, commercial/scientific catches, and similar). I am interested in data from all age classes (adult, juvenile, calves). Knowing that detailed data on these two species is quite scarce, I am looking for any of the following information (I am obviously not expecting to find all this information from the same animals): Morphometrics: -Body length (as well as distance between different body parts) -Girth (or half girth) (single or multiple sites) -Blubber thickness (single or multiple sites) -Total body weight -Blubber weight -Muscle weight -Visceral fat weight -Bone weight -Weight of other internal organs (heart, kidney, liver) -Stomach size/volume Chemical composition: -Blubber lipid concentration (total lipids, protein and water) -Muscle lipid concentration -Visceral fat lipid concentration -Bone lipid concentration -Lipid concentration in other organs (heart, kidney, liver) -Oil yield from different tissues and organs Reproductive variables: -Sex -Foetus length/weight -Number of corpora (Corpus luteum, Corpora albicantia and Corpora abberantia) in ovaries -Size of uterine cornua/horns -Testis volume/weight If your lab/organisation have any of this information (for either right whales or humpback whales), and potentially willing to share it, please email me on [email protected]. Best regards, Fredrik Christiansen Postdoctoral Research Fellow Cetacean Research Unit, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia +61 417 502 098, [email protected] http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=vkA5Y3EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fredrik_Christiansen3/?ev=hdr_xprf
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