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Too Close for Comfort? Isotopic Niche Segregation in New Zealand’s Odontocetes

Biology, 2022
Species occurring in sympatry and relying on similar and limited resources may partition resource use to avoid overlap and interspecific competition.
Katharina J. Peters, Sarah J. Bury, Bethany Hinton, Emma L. Betty, Déborah Casano-Bally, Guido J. Parra, Karen A. Stockin   +6 more
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Le « Projet Jonathan ». Aménager un environnement autour d’un enfant porteur d’autisme

Anthropologie & Santé, 2020
The text is a reflexive work on clinical care that was carried out by a team, to which the author belonged, with a child with autism, Jonathan. For three consecutive summers, Jonathan was taken to meet captive dolphins on a daily basis.
Véronique Servais
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Comparison of nephrolithiasis prevalence in two bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) populations

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2013
In humans, ammonium urate nephrolithiasis is rare in the Western hemisphere and more common in Japan and developing countries. Among a variety of risk factors, insulin resistance has been associated with urate nephrolithiasis in people.
Cynthia Rowe Smith, Stephanie eVenn-Watson, Randall S. Wells, Shawn P. Johnson, Natalie eMaffeo, Brian C. Balmer, Eric D. Jensen, Forrest eTownsend, Khashayar eSakhaee   +8 more
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Cetaceans and sea turtles in the northern region of the Mediterranean Cetacean Migration Corridor: abundance and multi-model habitat suitability analysis

Frontiers in Marine Science
The Mediterranean Cetacean Migration Corridor is one of the largest marine protected areas in the Mediterranean Sea. Nevertheless, little is known about the abundance and distribution of cetaceans and sea turtles in the area.
Luis Cardona, Natalia Amigó, Jazel Ouled-Cheikh, Manel Gazo, Carla A. Chicote   +4 more
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Tissue Element Levels and Heavy Metal Burdens in Bottlenose Dolphins That Stranded in the Mississippi Sound Surrounding the 2019 Unusual Mortality Event

Toxics
In 2019, an unusual mortality event (UME) affected bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Mississippi Sound (MSS) following an extended dual opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway (BCS), which prevents flooding in New Orleans. This resulted in low
Nelmarie Landrau-Giovannetti, Ryanne Murray, Stephen Reichley, Debra Moore, Theresa Madrigal, Ashli Brown, Ashley Meredith, Christina Childers, Darrell Sparks, Moby Solangi, Anna Linhoss, Beth Peterman, Mark Lawrence, Barbara L. F. Kaplan   +13 more
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Evaluation of potential protective factors against metabolic syndrome in bottlenose dolphins: feeding and activity patterns of dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2013
Free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) living in Sarasota Bay, Florida appear to have a lower risk of developing insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome compared to a group of dolphins managed under human care.
Randall eWells, Katherine A. McHugh, David C. Douglas, Steve eShippee, Elizabeth J. Berens McCabe, Nelio B. Barros, Goldie T. Phillips   +6 more
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Multiclass CNN Approach for Automatic Classification of Dolphin Vocalizations

Sensors
Monitoring dolphins in the open sea is essential for understanding their behavior and the impact of human activities on the marine ecosystems. Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) is a non-invasive technique for tracking dolphins, providing continuous data.
Francesco Di Nardo, Rocco De Marco, Daniel Li Veli, Laura Screpanti, Benedetta Castagna, Alessandro Lucchetti, David Scaradozzi   +6 more
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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.

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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Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation

Conservation Letters, 2022
Human–wildlife cooperation occurs when humans and free‐living wild animals actively coordinate their behavior to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome.
Jessica E. M. van der Wal, Claire N. Spottiswoode, Natalie T. Uomini, Mauricio Cantor, Fábio G. Daura‐Jorge, Anap I. Afan, Mairenn C. Attwood, Jenny Amphaeris, Fatima Balasani, Colleen M. Begg, Cameron J. Blair, Judith L. Bronstein, Iahaia O. Buanachique, Rion R. T. Cuthill, Jewel Das, Apurba Deb, Tanmay Dixit, Gcina S. Dlamini, Edmond Dounias, Isa I. Gedi, Martin Gruber, Lilian S. Hoffmann, Tobias Holzlehner, Hussein A. Isack, Eliupendo A. Laltaika, David J. Lloyd‐Jones, Jess Lund, Alexandre M. S. Machado, L. Mahadevan, Ignacio B. Moreno, Chima J. Nwaogu, Valdomiro L. Pereira, Raymond Pierotti, Seliano A. Rucunua, Wilson F. dos Santos, Nathalia Serpa, Brian D. Smith, Irina Tolkova, Tint Tun, João V. S. Valle‐Pereira, Brian M. Wood, Richard W. Wrangham, Dominic L. Cram   +42 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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