Corrigendum to “KOUTOUZI, N., ALEXIADOU, P., POLYCHRONIDIS, L., FRANTZIS, A., FOSKOLOS, I., 2026. Stomach contents of three deep-diving toothed whale species stranded in Greece, eastern Mediterranean. Mediterranean Marine Science, 27 (1), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.42351”

Understanding trophic ecology is essential for assessing the role of top predators in marine food webs. In the Mediterranean Sea, toothed whales are key components of megafauna and for this reason, we investigated the diets of nine deep-diving odontocetes stranded along the Greek coastline: five Risso’s dolphins (Grampus griseus), three goose-beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) and one sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). A t...

In oceanic ecosystems, the nature of barriers to gene flow and the processes by which populations may become isolated are different from the terrestrial environment, and less well understood. In this study we investigate a highly mobile species (the sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus ) that is genetically differentiated between an open North Atlantic population and the populations in the Mediterranean Sea. We apply high‐resol...

Body mass is a fundamental feature of animal physiology. Although sperm whales ( Physeter macrocephalus ) are the largest toothed predators on earth, body mass is seldom included in studies of their ecophysiology and bioenergetics due to the inherent difficulties of obtaining direct measurements. We used UAV‐photogrammetry to estimate the weight of free‐ranging sperm whales. Aerial photographs (23 calves, 11 juveniles, 55 nonm...

A deep-water acoustic observatory for real-time detection and localization of vocalizing sperm whales was developed, deployed and operated for two 3-month periods in summer 2020 and 2021, off south-west Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, in the framework of the SAvEWhales project. Regular clicks, pulsed sounds produced by the diving animals, were detected and localized using a large-aperture array of three hydrophones sus...