“…Currently, some of these marine mammals are at risk of extinction (Pimiento et al, 2020). Overall, marine fauna is threatened, directly or indirectly, by commercial exploitation, habitat loss, decreasing prey availability, pollution, watercraft activities, and ocean warming, which together or separately have triggered population decline and extirpation of many species over the past century (Pimiento et al, 2020;Tulloch, 2017). Unlike what occurred in terrestrial ecosystems, marine defaunation is a recent phenomenon (McCauley et al, 2015), promoted by the industrialization of whaling and fishing during colonial times, which intensified during the 20th century.…”