Composition of social groups of Long-finned Pilot Whales which stranded on the Holderness and Lincolnshire coasts in 1982 and 1985

摘要

Long-finned Pilot Whales Globicephala melas occur across the sub-polar and temperate regions of the southern oceans and the north Atlantic. In the north-eastern Atlantic few extend north of Iceland (66° N), their core range being the deep waters (200-3,000m) along or to the west of the 500m contour along the edge of the continental shelf. A main northerly concentration is to the west of the Faroe Islands but further south they occur in the Bay of Biscay, off the Iberian Peninsula and into the Mediterranean (Reid etal., 2003).