Fig. 1

Study site. The black star on Miyako Island indicates the location of the stranding of the Longman’s beaked whale reported in this study. The shaded stars in the map indicate the stranding locations of Longman’s beaked whales in Japan prior to this report. Shaded star 1, a 648 cm adult female Longman’s beaked whale found in Kagoshima in 2002 (Yamada et al. 2004; Yatabe et al. 2010); shaded star 2, a 630 cm adult female found in Hokkaido in 2010 (Yamada et al. 2012); and shaded star 3, a 478 cm juvenile male found in Okinawa in 2011 (Tokutake et al. 2012; Kobayashi et al. 2020)