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Is Corporate Communications A Strategic Function? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Corporate communications, or public relations (PR) as hitherto it has largely been known, has become an increasingly important function in business organisations. Yet little has been published on the role and function of communication executives.
Dolphin, R, Fan, Y
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Sustainable Fisheries Management and the Welfare of Bycaught and Entangled Cetaceans

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018
The incidental capture of cetaceans and other protected marine wildlife in fishing gear has significant welfare implications. Many thousands of cetaceans are bycaught in fishing gear in European waters and hundreds of thousands die globally.
Sarah J. Dolman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Personality and Affiliation in a Cooperative Task for Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Dyads [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +3 more
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Effects of vessel traffic on relative abundance and behaviour of cetaceans : the case of the bottlenose dolphins in the Archipelago de La Maddalena, north-western Mediterranean sea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Acknowledgements This study was part of the Tursiops Project of the Dolphin Research Centre of Caprera, La Maddalena. Financial and logistical support was provided by the Centro Turistico Studentesco (CTS) and by the National Park of the Archipelago de ...
ACA Hope   +43 more
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Temporal patterns in acoustic presence and foraging activity of oceanic dolphins at seamounts in the Azores [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +4 more
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Comprehensive endocrine response to acute stress in the bottlenose dolphin from serum, blubber, and feces.

open access: yesGeneral and Comparative Endocrinology, 2018
Several hormones are potential indicators of stress in free-ranging animals and provide information on animal health in managed-care settings. In response to stress, glucocorticoids (GC, e.g.
C. Champagne   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Food provisioning increases the risk of injury in a long-lived marine top predator [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2016
Food provisioning of wildlife is a major concern for management and conservation agencies worldwide because it encourages unnatural behaviours in wild animals and increases each individual's risk for injury and death. Here we investigate the contributing
Fredrik Christiansen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Systematic Determination of Herpesvirus in Free-Ranging Cetaceans Stranded in the Western Mediterranean: Tissue Tropism and Associated Lesions

open access: yesViruses, 2021
The monitoring of herpesvirus infection provides useful information when assessing marine mammals’ health. This paper shows the prevalence of herpesvirus infection (80.85%) in 47 cetaceans stranded on the coast of the Valencian Community, Spain.
Ignacio Vargas-Castro   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The emergent properties of a dolphin social network [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2003
Many complex networks, including human societies, the Internet, the World Wide Web and power grids, have surprising properties that allow vertices (individuals, nodes, Web pages, etc.) to be in close contact and information to be transferred quickly ...
D. Lusseau
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Resting Metabolic Rate and Lung Function in Wild Offshore Common Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Near Bermuda

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2018
Diving mammals have evolved a suite of physiological adaptations to manage respiratory gases during extended breath-hold dives. To test the hypothesis that offshore bottlenose dolphins have evolved physiological adaptations to improve their ability for ...
Andreas Fahlman   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

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