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A Robust Design Capture-Recapture Analysis of Abundance, Survival and Temporary Emigration of Three Odontocete Species in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
While the Mediterranean Sea has been designated as a Global Biodiversity Hotspot, assessments of cetacean population abundance are lacking for large portions of the region, particularly in the southern and eastern basins.
Nina Luisa Santostasi, Silvia Bonizzoni, Giovanni Bearzi, Lavinia Eddy, Olivier Gimenez   +4 more
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A Quantitative Assessment of Trainers-Dolphins’ Interactions in the Absence of Food Reward

Animals, 2023
All the studies that have considered the motivation of the dolphins to interact with their trainers as a possible welfare indicator have been carried out in facilities where the trainer-dolphin interactions (TDIs) sessions were reinforced with food ...
Sara Platto, Agathe Serres
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Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) aggressive behavior towards other cetacean species in the western Mediterranean

Scientific Reports, 2021
Aggressive behavior of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) towards conspecifics is widely described, but they have also often been reported attacking and killing harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) around the world. However, very few reports exist
J. L. Crespo-Picazo, C. Rubio-Guerri, M. A. Jiménez, F. J. Aznar, V. Marco-Cabedo, M. Melero, J. M. Sánchez-Vizcaíno, P. Gozalbes, D. García-Párraga   +8 more
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How to estimate age of old bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus); by tooth or pectoral flipper?

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Multiple techniques have been used for estimating age in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). The longest established technique is via counts of growth later groups (GLGs) in the longitudinal section of an extracted mandibular tooth.
Ashley Barratclough, Wayne E. McFee, Megan Stolen, Aleta A. Hohn, Gretchen N. Lovewell, Forrest M. Gomez, Cynthia R. Smith, Daniel Garcia-Parraga, Randall S. Wells, Celeste Parry, Risa Daniels, Sam H. Ridgway, Lori Schwacke   +12 more
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A coexistence of Paradigms: Understanding Human–environmental Relations of Fishers Involved in the Bycatch of Threatened Marine Species

Conservation & Society, 2018
In this article, we study a fishing community and its relationship with non-human species, including threatened marine mammals and turtles incidentally captured by fishers.
Victoria Gonzalez Carman, Maria Carman
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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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Adrenal Gland and Lung Lesions in Gulf of Mexico Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Found Dead following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

PLoS ONE, 2015
A northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) cetacean unusual mortality event (UME) involving primarily bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama began in February 2010 and continued into 2014.
Stephanie Venn-Watson, Kathleen M Colegrove, Jenny Litz, Michael Kinsel, Karen Terio, Jeremiah Saliki, Spencer Fire, Ruth Carmichael, Connie Chevis, Wendy Hatchett, Jonathan Pitchford, Mandy Tumlin, Cara Field, Suzanne Smith, Ruth Ewing, Deborah Fauquier, Gretchen Lovewell, Heidi Whitehead, David Rotstein, Wayne McFee, Erin Fougeres, Teri Rowles   +21 more
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Une mer vraiment dyonisiaque

Pallas, 2009
Several studies have recently advanced our knowledge of the relations between Dionysos and the sea, often placed under the sign of the « winy sea » (oinos pontos) or of the « dionysiac sea ».
Jean-Marie Pailler
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The ability of artisanal fishers to recognize the dolphins they cooperate with

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020
Background Human-animal interactions with mutual benefits in the wild are rare. Such positive interactions seem to require an intricate knowledge from the human side on the animals’ behavior and their habitat.
Daiane S. X. da Rosa, Natalia Hanazaki, Maurício Cantor, Paulo C. Simões-Lopes, Fábio G. Daura-Jorge   +4 more
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Distemper in a Dolphin

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
To the Editor: Deaths caused by new members of the genus Morbillivirus, family Paramyxoviridae (1), have occurred in recent decades among phocine and cetacean species, particularly harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in 1988 (2) and 2002 (3). Endangered Mediterranean striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) died in 1990 and 1991 (4), and common dolphins ...
Peter Wohlsein, Christina Puff, Mihaela Kreutzer, Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Ursula Siebert   +4 more
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