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Emerging and recurring diseases in cetaceans worldwide and the role of environmental stressors. Scientific Committee Document SC/60/DW5, International Whaling Commission, June 2008, Santiago, Chile [PDF]

, 2008
Emerging and recurring infectious diseases known or suspected to have the potential to significantly impact cetacean populations, and possible synergistic effects of environmental factors are reviewed.
Aguilar, A., Barrett, T., de Oliveira Santos, M.C., Di Guardo, G., Duignan, P., Jepson, P., Moreno, I., Raga, J.A., Siciliano, S., Siebert, U., Van Bressem, M.-F., Van Waerebeek, K.   +11 more
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Central nervous system disease and genital disease in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are associated with different herpesviruses [PDF]

, 2016
Herpesvirus infection causes disease of variable severity in many species, including cetaceans. However, little is known about herpesvirus infection in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena), despite being widespread in temperate coastal waters of the ...
Bildt, M.W.G. (Marco) van de, De Jong, A. (Anton), Elk, C.E. (Niels) van, Getu, S. (Sarah), Kuiken, T. (Thijs), Osterhaus, A.D.M.E. (Albert), Run, P.R.W.A. (Peter) van, Verjans, G.M.G.M. (George)   +7 more
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Evidence for Facilitation of Horizontal Social Learning Among Social Subgroups of Juvenile Atlantic Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis). [PDF]

, 2017
Although vertical (mother-to-offspring) information transfer has been reported in dolphins, it is unclear whether horizontal information transfer takes place between peers of non-parental individuals.
De Brabanter, Gaïane L. B., Herzing, Denise L., Jarvis, Susan   +2 more
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Review of lobomycosis and lobomycosis-like disease (LLD) in Cetacea from South America. Scientific Committee document SC/60/DW13, International Whaling Commission, June 2008, Santiago, Chile [PDF]

, 2008
Caused by a yeast-like organism known as Lacazia loboi, Lobomycosis (or lacaziosis) naturally affects humans, common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) inhabiting coastal waters from southern Brazil to Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast of Florida ...
Crespo, E.A., Echegaray, M., Flach, L., Flores, P.A.C., Félix, F., Klaich, M.J., Moreno, I.B., Ott, P.H., Reyes, J.C., Sanino, G.P., Santos, M.C.O., Siciliano, S., Tavares, M., Van Bressem, M.-F., Van Waerebeek, K., Viddi, F.   +15 more
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Skin diseases in cetaceans. Scientific Committee document SC/60/DW8, International Whaling Commission, June 2008, Santiago, Chile [PDF]

, 2008
Micro-organisms that are known or suspected to cause skin diseases in cetaceans are briefly reviewed. Viruses belonging to four families i.e. Caliciviridae, Herpesviridae, Papillomaviridae and Poxviridae were detected by electron microscopy, histology ...
Avila, I.C., Castro, C., Crespo, E., de Oliveira Santos, M.C., Echegaray, M., Flach, L., Fraijia, N., Félix, F., Reyes, J.C., Sanino, G.P., Siciliano, S., Van Bressem, M.-F., Van Waerebeek, K., Viddi, F.   +13 more
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ORCA-SPOT: An Automatic Killer Whale Sound Detection Toolkit Using Deep Learning [PDF]

, 2019
Large bioacoustic archives of wild animals are an important source to identify reappearing communication patterns, which can then be related to recurring behavioral patterns to advance the current understanding of intra-specific communication of non ...
Barth, Volker, Bergler, Christian, Cheng, Rachael Xi, Hofer, Heribert, Maier, Andreas, Nöth, Elmar, Schröter, Hendrik, Weber, Michael   +7 more
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Protected species aerial survey data collection and analysis in waters underlying the R-5306A airspace: final report submitted to US Marine Corps, MCAS Cherry Point [PDF]

, 2007
To be in compliance with the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the United States Department of the Navy is required to assess the potential environmental impacts of conducting at-sea training operations on sea turtles and ...
Braun-McNeill, Joanne, Davenport, Erik, Goodman, M. April, Hohn, Aleta A.   +3 more
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Resting metabolic rate and lung function in wild offshore common bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, near Bermuda [PDF]

, 2018
© The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Frontiers in Physiology 9 (2018): 886, doi:10.3389/fphys.2018.00886.Diving mammals have evolved a ...
Aaron Barleycorn, Andreas Fahlman, Andreas Fahlman, Andreas Fahlman, Austin Allen, Frants H. Jensen, Frants H. Jensen, Guy Bedford, Jason Allen, Jay Sweeney, Katherine McHugh, Michael J. Moore, Rae Stone, Randall Wells, Robyn Faulkner Trainor   +14 more
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Whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the western North Atlantic: a guide to their identification [PDF]

, 1976
This is an identification guide for cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises). It was designed to assist laypersons in identifying cetaceans encountered in the western North Atlantic Ocean and was intended for use by ongoing cetacean observer programs.
Caldwell, David K., Caldwell, Melba C., Leatherwood, Stephen, Schevill, William E, Winn, Howard E.   +4 more
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Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus. [PDF]

, 2014
Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well-known example of birdsong, other animals such as insects, amphibians, and mammals (including bats, rodents, primates,
Akçay, Çağlar, Backus, Gregory, Bee, Mark A, Blumstein, Daniel T, Bohn, Kirsten, Cao, Yan, Carter, Gerald, Coen, Michael, Cäsar, Cristiane, DeRuiter, Stacy L, Doyle, Laurance, Edelman, Shimon, Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon, Freeberg, Todd M, Garland, Ellen C, Gustison, Morgan, Harley, Heidi E, Huetz, Chloé, Hughes, Melissa, Hyland Bruno, Julia, Ilany, Amiyaal, Jin, Dezhe Z, Johnson, Michael, Ju, Chenghui, Karnowski, Jeremy, Kershenbaum, Arik, Lohr, Bernard, Manser, Marta B, McCowan, Brenda, Mercado, Eduardo, Narins, Peter M, Piel, Alex, Rice, Megan, Roch, Marie A, Salmi, Roberta, Sasahara, Kazutoshi, Sayigh, Laela, Shiu, Yu, Taylor, Charles, Vallejo, Edgar E, Waller, Sara, Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica   +41 more
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