Recently added articles from Aquatic Mammals:

TURTLES OF THE WORLD

Jan 01, 2008; Broderick, Annette C ... TURTLES OF THE WORLD. Franck Bonin, Bernard Devaux, and Alain Dupré. Translated by Peter C. H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8018-8496-9, 416 pp. This weighty and colourful book was originally written in French and has been translated by Peter C. H. Pritchard ....

Vocal Development in a Beluga Calf (Delphinapterus leucas)

Jan 01, 2008; Vergara, Valeria; Barrett-Lennard, Lance G ... Abstract Acoustic communication is central to the socio-ecology of cetaceans. Knowledge of the ontogeny of their extensive repertoires is scant, and even less is known about the role of learning in vocal development. To examine these issues, the development of calls of one male beluga ...

Reply to J. G. M. Thewissen's Review of the Book Morphology of the Auditory and Vestibular Organs in Mammals, with Emphasis on Marine Species

Jan 01, 2008; Solntseva, Galina N ... By Galina N. Solntseva. Pensoft Publishers and Brill Academic Publishers, Sofia, Leiden, 2007. ISBN 9789004162020, 244 pp., appearing in Aquatic Mammals, 33(3), 394-395, 2007. J. G. M. Thewissen's review of my book gives the impression that it was written for a different book altogether, ...

The Influence of Social Composition on Reproductive Behavior of Territorial Male California Sea Lions

Jan 01, 2008; Young, Julie K; Gerber, Leah R ... Abstract The behavior of territorial males in a polygynous mating species may be influenced by a variety of factors related to site-specific conditions. In this paper, the behavioral dynamics of territorial male California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) are characterized throughout ...

Gender, Age, and Identity in the Isolation Calls of Antillean Manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)

Jan 01, 2008; Sousa-Lima, Renata S; Paglia, Adriano P; Fonseca, Gustavo A B da ... Abstract Empirical evidence of individual vocal recognition has been reported for the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) and the West Indian manatee (T. manatus). Underwater vocalizations of 15 Antillean manatees (T. m. manatus) were recorded to verify if this subspecies also ...

Rehabilitation and Homing Behavior of a Satellite-Tracked Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)

Jan 01, 2008; Schofield, T David; Early, Greg; Wenzel, Frederick W; Matassa, Keith; Perry, Cindi; Beekman, Gerry; Whitaker, Brent; Gebhard, Erika; Walton, Wendy; Swingle, Mark ... Abstract A yearling male harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) stranded alive on the shores of Avon, North Carolina, and was rehabilitated for nearly 10 mo at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and the University of New England. The porpoise was released over 1,204 km north of its original ...

Diets of Mature Male and Female Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus) Differ and Cannot Be Used as Proxies for Each Other

Jan 01, 2008; Trites, Andrew W; Calkins, Donald G ... Abstract Disturbance of otariid breeding sites (rookeries) to determine diet from fecal remains (scats) could be eliminated if the diets of males using adjoining bachelor haulouts could be used as a proxy for diets of breeding females. We collected scats from sexually mature Steller sea ...

Observation of a Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) Birth in the Coastal Waters of the Southeast United States

Jan 01, 2008; Zani, Monica A; Taylor, Jessica K D; Kraus, Scott D ... Abstract The coastal waters of the southeast United States between Brunswick, Georgia, and Cape Canaveral, Florida, is the only known calving ground for the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). On 1 January 2005, during the New England Aquarium research team's standard ...

Diurnal and Tidal Variations in Habitat Use of the Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in Southwest Britain

Jan 01, 2008; Goodwin, Lissa ... Abstract With the United Kingdom required to designate Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) under Natura 2000 by 2012, it is important to understand site-specific activity and habitat use in order to identify potential sites. Shore-based observations of harbour porpoises (Phocoena ...

Metacarpo-Phalangeal Anomalies in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Jan 01, 2008; Watson, Alastair; Bahr, Robert J; Matheson, Tiffany ... Abstract Radiographs of 99 intact flippers from 60 sub-adult to adult bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), all stranded on the Texas coast from 1990 to 1995, were examined to determine location and nature of lesions in the metacarpal and phalangeal bones. Eleven flippers from seven ...

Some Reproductive Parameters of an Estuarine Population of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)

Jan 01, 2008; Steiner, Aude; Bossley, Mike ... Abstract The Port River estuary (Adelaide, South Australia) supports a population of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) despite its heavily modified habitat. This paper reports the calving season, birth rate, calf mortality, and inter-birth interval of the resident ...

Radio-Tracking and Survivorship of Two Rehabilitated Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida

Jan 01, 2008; Mazzoil, Marilyn S; McCulloch, Stephen D; Youngbluth, Marsh J; Kilpatrick, David S; Murdoch, M Elizabeth; Mase-Guthrie, Blair; Odell, Daniel K; Bossart, Gregory D ... Abstract Despite an increase in the number of stranded dolphins rehabilitated and returned to the wild, the survivorship of these cetaceans is poorly documented. Since rehabilitation and release programs remain limited in scope, the release of dolphins from different age and sex cohorts ...

Overt Responses of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus), and Atlantic Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis) to Seismic Exploration off Angola

Jan 01, 2008; Weir, Caroline R ... Abstract A total of 2,769 h of marine mammal observation was conducted from a seismic survey vessel off Angola between August 2004 and May 2005. A dual-source airgun array firing a total volume of either 5,085 in^sup 3^ (Survey 1) or 3,147 in^sup 3^ (Survey 2) in an alternate source ...

Distribution and Habitat Use of Antillean Manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) in the Drowned Cayes Area of Belize, Central America

Jan 01, 2008; LaCommare, Katherine S; Self-Sullivan, Caryn; Brault, Solange ... Abstract Belize, Central America, has long been recognized as a stronghold for Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) in the Caribbean (O'Shea & Salisbury, 1991). The Drowned Cayes area, in particular, has been noted as an important habitat (Bengston & Magor, 1979; ...

Recent Cytokine Findings and Implications Toward Health Assessment of the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Jan 01, 2008; Vecchione, Anna; Peden-Adams, Margie M; Romano, Tracy A; Fair, Patricia A ... Abstract Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are top-level marine predators and represent a sentinel species for ocean health. The study of cytokines and immunocellular function are important components for assessing the overall health status of wild dolphins. Recent studies have ...

First Case of a Monitored Pregnancy of a Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care

Jan 01, 2008; Blanchet, Marie-Anne; Nance, Tiffany; Ast, Colleen; Wahlberg, Magnus; Acquarone, Mario ... Abstract Most of the data collected on the reproduction of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) comes from by-caught or stranded animals and is therefore opportunistic in nature. Harbour porpoises kept in a human-controlled environment offer a unique opportunity to gather data on the ...