A first checklist of cetaceans of Ghana, Gulf of Guinea, and a shore-based survey of interactions with coastal fisheries. Scientific Committee document SC/51/SM35, International Whaling Commission, May 1999, Grenada [PDF]
To date, six cetacean species are confirmed to occur in coastal waters off Ghana: five odontocetes Stenella clymene, Steno bredanensis, Tursiops truncatus, Kogia simus, Physeter macrocephalus, and Megaptera novaeangliae.
Ofori-Danson, P.K., Van Waerebeek, K.
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Spartan Daily, October 29, 1998 [PDF]
Volume 111, Issue 43https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9331/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Methodological Considerations for Comparison of Cross-species Use of Tactile Contact [PDF]
Cross-species comparisons are benefited by compatible datasets; conclusions related to phylogenetic comparisons, questions on convergent and divergent evolution, or homologs versus analogs can only be made when the behaviors being measured are comparable.
Botero, Maria +2 more
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Genes or Culture: Are Mitochondrial Genes Associated with Tool Use in Bottlenose Dolphins ( Tursiops sp.)? [PDF]
Some bottlenose dolphins use marine sponges as foraging tools (‘sponging'), which appears to be socially transmitted from mothers mainly to their female offspring. Yet, explanations alternative to social transmission have been proposed.
Allen, S. +4 more
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Diseases, lesions and malformations in the long-beaked common dolphin Delphinus capensis from the Southeast Pacific [PDF]
Miscellaneous lesions of the head, skull, teeth, trunk, appendages, skin and genital tract were observed in 120 of 930 long-beaked common dolphins Delphinus capensis taken in fisheries off Peru between 1985 and 2000.
Alfaro-Shigueto, J. +7 more
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Distinción semántica de compuestos léxicos en recuperación de información [PDF]
La consideración de sintagmas no parece producir mejoras significativas en los modelos clásicos de Recuperación de Información. En general, se acepta que los criterios de proximidad proporcionan mejores resultados que un criterio de adyacencia.
Gonzalo Arroyo, Julio +2 more
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Wildlife trade and endangered species protection [PDF]
Markets for endangered species potentially generate incentives for both legal supply and poaching. To deter poaching, governments can spend on enforcement or increase legal harvesting to reduce the return from poaching.
Missios, Paul C.
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Species diversity and distribution pattern of marine mammals of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman - Iranian Waters [PDF]
A total of 98 marine mammal records from Iranian coastal waters of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman were compiled of which 66 are previously unpublished new records. Seventy-nine were from the Persian Gulf and 16 from the Gulf of Oman coast. The largest
Braulik, G.T., Owfi, F., Rabbaniha, M.
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Soundings: the Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. 2004 [PDF]
(PDF contains 92 pages.
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