Publications by authors named "David M Donnelly"
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- Cooperative hunting between humans and killer whales in Eden, Australia, was documented for nearly a century until local whaling ceased in 1928, leading to diminished sightings.
- DNA from a famous killer whale, "Old Tom," was sequenced and compared with global killer whale populations, revealing he shared a common ancestor with various groups but had unique genetic traits.
- The study highlights the importance of Indigenous knowledge in understanding the historical relationship between humans and killer whales, suggesting that the local population may have gone extinct with no identified descendants.
Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) migrate between Austral-winter calving and socialising grounds to offshore mid- to high latitude Austral-summer feeding grounds. In Australasia, winter calving grounds used by southern right whales extend from Western Australia across southern Australia to the New Zealand sub-Antarctic Islands. During the Austral-summer these whales are thought to migrate away from coastal waters to feed, but the location of these feeding grounds is only inferred from historical whaling data.
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