Sometimes sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) cannot find their way back to the high seas: a multidisciplinary study on a mass stranding.

<h4>Background</h4>Mass strandings of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) remain peculiar and rather unexplained events, which rarely occur in the Mediterranean Sea. Solar cycles and related changes in the geomagnetic field, variations in water temperature and weather conditions, coast...

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Main Authors: Sandro Mazzariol, Giovanni Di Guardo, Antonio Petrella, Letizia Marsili, Cristina M Fossi, Claudio Leonzio, Nicola Zizzo, Salvatrice Vizzini, Stefania Gaspari, Gianni Pavan, Michela Podestà, Fulvio Garibaldi, Margherita Ferrante, Chiara Copat, Donato Traversa, Federica Marcer, Sabina Airoldi, Alexandros Frantzis, Yara De Bernaldo Quirós, Bruno Cozzi, Antonio Fernández
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f0d70fc278754b5fb1a35dc6b34bc07d
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