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Biogeography and History of the Prehuman Native Mammal Fauna of the New Zealand Region
DiversityThe widespread perception of New Zealand is of a group of remote islands dominated by reptiles and birds, with no native mammals except a few bats. In fact, the islands themselves are only part of a wider New Zealand Region which includes a large section
Carolyn M. King
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Netherlands Journal of Sea Research, 1962 Abstract 1. 1. Theories on hearing in whales are reviewed. 2. 2. Directional hearing is discussed in relation to the anatomical structure of the cetacean ear. 3. 3. Catching, maintenance and transport of Phocaena phocaena are described. Directions are given for the maintenance and sustenance of live Phocaena . 4. 4.
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Sign Systems Studies, 2009 The complexity and variation of sound emission by members of the animal kingdom, primarily produced by the orders Passeriformes (songbirds), Cetacea (whales), but also reported in species belonging to the Exopterygota (insects) and Carnivora (mammals ...
Regina Rottner
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Catalog of Osteological Collections of Aquatic Mammals from Mexico [PDF]
, 1991 This paper compiles available information on osteological and other anatomical specimens of at least 51 species of aquatic mammals (34 extant, one recently extinct and 16 fossil) collected in Mexico between 1868 and 1990 and housed in 29 scientific ...
Vidal, Omar
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Biological parameters of franciscana dolphins, Pontoporia blainvillei, bycaught in artisanal fisheries off southern Buenos Aires, Argentina [PDF]
, 2014 The franciscana dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) is a small coastal dolphin endemic to the south-western Atlantic ocean. Incidental captures in fishing gillnets is possibly the greatest conservation concern for this species, and occurs within most of ...
Cappozzo, Humberto Luis +5 more
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Cetacean (order Cetacea) evolution [PDF]
, 2009 Cilj ovog rada bio je shvatiti i razraditi morfološke i molekularne podatke dobivene iz brojnih fosilnih nalaza kako bi se zaključilo o podrijetlu današnjih vrsti reda Cetacea.
Divac Brnić, Dušica
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Crossing the equator: a northern occurrence of the pygmy right whale
Zoological Letters, 2018 Here we document the first stranding record of the pygmy right whale in the Northern Hemisphere—on the coast of The Gambia, Africa (NE Atlantic Ocean, around latitude 13° N)—a location in stark contrast to its current distribution exclusively south of ...
Cheng-Hsiu Tsai, James G. Mead
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Characteristics of order Cetacea (whales) and causes of their vulnerability in the Adriatic Sea [PDF]
, 2011 Kitovi (Cetacea) su jedini sisavci koji su prilagodili život u potpunosti u vodi. Ima ih više od 80 vrsta, a neke nastanjuju osim mora i rijeke. Dijele se na dva podreda: kitove zubane (Odontoceti) i usane (Mysticeti).
Babić, Jelena
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Fusión de suturas craneales en el delfín franciscana, Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais and D'Orbigny, 1844) [PDF]
, 2015 Se estudió la fusión de suturas craneales y su asimetría bilateral en el delfín franciscana, Pontoporia blainvillei. Nuestros resultados mostraron que el cierre de suturas presenta baja variabilidad asociada a la longitud corporal total, exceptuando la ...
Cappozzo, Humberto Luis +2 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The South Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) is the only extant survivor of the large clade Platanistoidea, having a well-diversified fossil record from the Late Oligocene to the Middle Miocene.
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