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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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A preliminary overview of skin and skeletal diseases and traumata in small cetaceans from South American waters [PDF]

, 2007
We succinctly review and document new cases of diseases of the skin and the skeletal system and external traumata in cetaceans from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Venezuela.
Avila, I.C., Bolaños-Jimenez, J., Castineira, E., Crespo, E., Di Beneditto, A.P., Echegaray, M., Flach, L., Flores, P.A.C., Fragoso, A.B., Félix, F., Haase, B., Herrera, J.C., Laeta, M., Mendonça de Souza, S.M.F., Montes, D., Moreno, I.B., Ott, P.H., Reyes, J.C., Sanino, G.P., Siciliano, S., Tobón, I.C., Van Bressem, M.-F., Van Waerebeek, K., Viddi, F.   +23 more
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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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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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Environmental enrichment for Killer whales Orcinus orca at zoological institutions: untried and untested [PDF]

, 2017
Despite a history in zoological institutions stretching back more than 50 years, with associated improvements in husbandry and breeding, the keeping of Killer whales Orcinus orca in zoos and aquariums has become highly controversial.
Kitchener, A.C., Law, G.
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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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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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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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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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Cloning and Sequencing of the Bottle-Nosed Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Interferon-.GAMMA. Gene.

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, 1999
The bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) interferon-gamma(IFN-gamma) cDNA was cloned from mitogen stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) RNA utilizing the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The dolphin IFN-gammacDNA was 585 base pairs in length and contained an open reading frame of 498 nucleotides encoding an ...
Y, Inoue, T, Itou, T, Oike, T, Sakai
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