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Radio-Tracking and Survivorship of Two Rehabilitated Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida
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Aquatic Mammals
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January 1, 2008
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- Mazzoil, Marilyn S; McCulloch, Stephen D; Youngbluth, Marsh J; Kilpatrick, David S; Murdoch, M Elizabeth; Mase-Guthrie, Blair; Odell, Daniel K; Bossart, Gregory D
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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 provides information that is pertinent to protocols for future release candidates. Novel opportunities to track the survivorship of two rehabilitated bottlenose dolphins with radio transmitters occurred in 2001 and 2003 in the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), Florida. Both dolphins were male and had been identified prior to rehabilitation during a photo-identification monitoring program. Dolphin C6 stranded with ...