Status of the White-beaked Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris, in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
White-beaked Dolphins are common and abundant in the north Atlantic.Abundance appears greater in northeastern areas compared to the northwestern Atlantic where its range extends from Davis Strait to the Hague Line on George's Bank, and into U.S. waters.Relationships between populations observed in different areas are not known.Total or local populations are not known to be reduced or depleted.The biology and ecology of this species has been incompletely studied.It occurs in social groups ranging from dozens to hundreds of individuals; there is some indication that groups may segregate based on age/maturity.Sexual maturity occurs in females at lengths from 1.74 to 2.49 m; 50% are mature at 2.42 m.Males are larger at sexual maturity (2.51 to 2.57 m).Factors limiting northwestern Atlantic White-beaked Dolphins may include hunting, incidental entrapments in fishing gear, ice entrapments and, possibly, pollution.Such factors should be monitored carefully but are not, at present, believed to have substantial impacts on the species, although there may be reduction of some local populations.Factors such as ice entrapments, parasites, infections, mass strandings and predation are recognized as naturally occurring mortality and are not presumed to normally limit the species.There is no evidence of any major threat to this species in zones under Canadian jurisdiction.However, careful monitoring of hunting activities in Labrador is recommended and fisheries by-catches should be carefully monitored.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".