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Seasonal Abundance, Density and Distribution of Cetaceans in the Bulgarian Black Sea Shelf in 2017

Diversity, 2023
Black Sea cetaceans are isolated and nominated as endemic subspecies listed in the IUCN Red List of Endangered species: the harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin as Endangered (EN) and the common dolphin as Vulnerable (VU).
Dimitar Popov, Marina Panayotova, Radoslava Bekova, Hristo Dimitrov, Galina Meshkova   +4 more
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Hybridization in the wild between Tursiops truncatus (Montagu 1821) and Delphinus delphis (Linnaeus 1758) [PDF]

, 2019
A case of intergeneric hybridization in the wild between a female bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and a short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis), considered members of 'vulnerable' and 'endangered' subpopulations in the Mediterranean ...
Espada, Rocío, García Gómez, José Carlos, Haasova, Luisa, Martín, Estefanía, Olaya Ponzone, Liliana   +4 more
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How to Work on a Non-endangered Species and Contribute to Cetacean Conservation: An Example by the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
The world’s most endangered small cetaceans are found in countries many miles from Sarasota Bay and its common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).
Frances M. D. Gulland
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Coinfection by Ureaplasma spp., Photobacterium damselae and an Actinomyces-like microorganism in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) with pleuropneumonia stranded along the Adriatic coast of Italy [PDF]

, 2016
A case of pleuropneumonia is reported in an adult male bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) found stranded in 2014 along the Central Adriatic coast of Italy.
Camm\ue0, Cesare, Curini, Valentina, Di Francesco, Cristina Esmeralda, Di Francesco, Gabriella, Di Guardo, Giovanni, Di Provvido, Andrea, Ferri, Nicola, Mazzariol, Sandro, Proietto, Umberto   +8 more
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Habitat preferences among three top predators inhabiting a degraded ecosystem, the Black Sea

Scientia Marina, 2017
This study investigated whether there is evidence of widespread niche partitioning based on environmental factors in the Black Sea and tested the hypothesis that physiographic factors may be employed as predictors.
Alicia Sánchez-Cabanes, Maja Nimak-Wood, Nicola Harris, Renaud de Stephanis   +3 more
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Do pingers cause stress in fish? An experimental tank study with European sardine, Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) (Actinopterygii, Clupeidae), exposed to a 70 kHz dolphin pinger [PDF]

, 2014
Date of acceptance: 06/12/2014 Acknowledgments The study was funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundac¸a˜o para a Cieˆncia e Tecnologia– FCT) through a PhD Grant of SG (SFRH/BD/47931/2008).
Begona Santos, M., Costas Costas, Damian, Goetz, Sabine, Gonzalez Villanueva, Antonio, Pierce, Graham John, Vingada, Jose   +5 more
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Validation of aerial photogrammetry methods to measure body size, condition and mass in small cetaceans. [PDF]

J Physiol
Abstract figure legend Unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV)‐based photogrammetry provides measurements equivalent to traditional hand measurements in bottlenose dolphins. Mass estimates derived from UAV measurements closely match the true body mass of live individuals.
Cicciarella R, Willems EP, Markham B, Bizzozzero MR, Phillips W, Allen SJ, Krützen M, Christiansen F.   +7 more
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Personality and Affiliation in a Cooperative Task for Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Dyads [PDF]

, 2020
Social species can depend on each other for survival, helping in rearing of young, predator defense, and foraging. Personality dynamics between individuals may influence cooperative behaviors.
Bagley, Kimberly Corinne, Bolton, Teri, Foerder, Preston, Winship, Kelley   +3 more
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Temporal patterns in acoustic presence and foraging activity of oceanic dolphins at seamounts in the Azores [PDF]

, 2020
© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Cascao, I., Lammers, M. O., Prieto, R., Santos, R. S., & Silva, M. A.
Cascão, Irma, Lammers, Marc O., Prieto, Rui, Santos, Ricardo S., Silva, Monica A.   +4 more
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A contribution to the knowledge of the cetological fauna in the waters of Western Sardinia

Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 1998
<strong>Abstract</strong> A 10 day survey was carried out off Western Sardinia during summer 1997. Conventional observation methods were used onboard a 12 meter motorsailer.
Alexandre Gannier
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