One or many? Exploring the population groups of the Antarctic blue whale using historical mark-recovery data

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Nov 15, 2024, 12:04 pm504 ptsHot
Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent estimate in 2004 put Antarctic blue whales at less than 1% of their pre-whaling levels.

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