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The Importance of Individual Body Condition in Mammalian Behavioural Responses to Disturbance

Mammal Review, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
Body condition, shaped by the balance between energy demands and reserves, predictably shapes mammalian disturbance responses. Poor‐condition individuals adopt needs‐based strategies, accepting greater risks to meet immediate energetic needs, while good‐condition individuals follow asset‐protection strategies, minimizing risks to protect their survival
Valeria Perez‐Marrufo, Lesley Thorne, Susan E. Parks   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bycatch as a potential threat to harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in Polish Baltic waters

NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2003
Sixty-two verified reports obtained in the years 1990-1999 on the bycatch, strandings and sightings of harbour porpoises in the Polish Baltic were analysed in this study. In relative terms the highest number of reports (22) was noted in Puck Bay.
Krzysztof E Skóra, Iwona Kuklik
doaj   +1 more source

Whole‐Genome‐Sequencing Reveals Demographic History and Patterns of Parallel Adaptive Evolution in Indo‐Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) Across Coastal Australian Seascapes

Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 11, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Understanding how demographic dynamics interact with environmental heterogeneity is central to explaining patterns of genomic variation in the marine realm. Indo‐Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) occur along most of the Australian coastline, from tropical to temperate waters, encompassing pronounced differences in temperature ...
Svenja M. Marfurt, Adrien Tran Lu Y, Benjamin Dauphin, Manuela R. Bizzozzero, Masaomi Hatakeyama, Delphine B. H. Chabanne, Simon J. Allen, Felix Smith, Guido J. Parra, Michael Krützen   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sex and size matter:foraging ecology of offshore harbour porpoises in waters around Greenland

, 2022
Individuals of different sex or age can vary in their prey and habitat resource use due to differences in behaviour, life history, energetic need, or size.
Louis, Marie, Routledge, Jennifer, Heide-Jorgensen, Mads Peter, Lorenzen, Eline D., Szpak, Paul   +4 more
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An experimental study of postmortem ocular fluid and core temperature analysis in incidentally captured harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)

NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2003
Determination of elapsed time since death in small cetaceans can be important to our understanding of the nature of their interactions with fishing operations.
C Hood, P-Y Daoust, J Lien, C Richter
doaj   +1 more source

Grey seal attacks on harbour porpoises in the Eastern Scheldt: cases of survival and mortality [PDF]

, 2017
In the southern North Sea, hundreds of mutilated harbour porpoise carcasses (Phocoena phocoena) are found each year on beaches. Recent studies have confirmed that these concern the remains of predation by grey seals (Halichoerus grypus).
Podt, Annemieke, dPB CR, Veterinair Pathologisch Diagnostisch Cnt, Applied Veterinary Research, IJsseldijk, L.L.   +4 more
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Preserving an Imperiled Porpoise Through Pixels: Digitization of a Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) Skeleton, the World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 3, July 2026.
Jamie L. Knaub, Brittany A. Dolan, Philip Unitt, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Tricia L. Meredith, Marianne E. Porter   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing drivers of habitat use by dolphins at dynamic oceanographic features to inform conservation management

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract Estuaries host important populations of marine megafauna. These environments provide shelter from the open ocean alongside a myriad of bathy‐hydographic features where interactions between topography and tidal flows may enhance foraging opportunities.
S. L. Cox, P. J. Hosegood, C. B. Embling, A. M. Englund, M. Garagouni, E. Rogan, S. C. Votier, S. N. Ingram   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

In search of virus carriers of the 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper virus outbreaks in European harbour seals

, 2008
European harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) populations decreased substantially during the phocine distemper virus (PDV) outbreaks of 1988 and 2002. Different hypotheses have stated that various seals and terrestrial carnivore species might be the source of ...
Sonne, C., Harkonen, T., Kreutzer, R., Muller, G., Kreutzer, M., Baumgartner, W., Reijnders, P.J.H., Brasseur, S.M.J.M., Dietz, R., Born, E.W., Siebert, U.   +10 more
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Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea

Animals, 2020
To date, only limited results on the fatty composition in different tissues of the top predators in the Baltic Sea are available. In the current study, tissue samples of blubber, skeletal muscle, and liver from 8 harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and ...
Dirk Dannenberger, Ramona Möller, Linda Westphal, Timo Moritz, Michael Dähne, Bianka Grunow   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source