Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) observed during land-based surveys in The Minch, north-west Scotland [PDF]
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Dolman, Sarah J. +4 more
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Age and lunar cycle predict harbor porpoise bycatch in the south-western Baltic Sea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, is the only cetacean regularly occurring in the Baltic Sea. During the last decades, several anthropogenic activities have affected porpoises in the Baltic region.
Dennis Brennecke +3 more
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Histological investigations on the thyroid glands of marine mammals (Phoca vitulina, Phocoena phocoena) and the possible implications of marine pollution [PDF]
, 1993 In 1988 and 1989, thousands of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) died in the North Sea from phocine distemper infection. The morphology of thyroid glands from 40 harbor seals found dead on the North Sea coastlines of Schleswig-Holstein, Federal Republic of ...
Heidemann, Günter +5 more
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Impact of turbot fishery on cetaceans in the Romanian Black Sea area
Scientia Marina, 2014 The abundance of the three species of endemic Black Sea marine mammals represented by Delphinus delphis ponticus (Barabasch-Nikiforov 1935), Tursiops truncatus ponticus (Barabasch-Nikiforov 1940) and Phocoena phocoena relicta (Abel 1905) has shown a ...
Gheorghe Radu, Eugen Anton
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Scientia Marina, 2020 The spatial and temporal occurrence of cetaceans in the Black Sea and particularly along its southwestern coastline is poorly studied. Based on a total of 609 encounters, we present the analysis of monthly dynamics of (1) the numbers of cetacean ...
Nastassia Uluduz +2 more
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Spatial orientation in echolocating harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2005 SUMMARY Studies concerning the echolocation behaviour of odontocetes focus mainly on target detection and discrimination, either in stationary animals or in animals approaching a specific target. We present the first data on the use of echolocation for spatial orientation or navigation.
Verfuss, U.K. +2 more
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Sightings of Cetaceans in the waters of Yuzhny Sea Port (Hryhorivsky Estuary, Black Sea) in 2015–2016 [PDF]
Праці Теріологічної школи, 2016 The use of transformed coastal ecosystems by the Black Sea cetaceans is an important, but little studied issue. In 2015–2016, coastal visual observations of cetaceans were conducted in the waters of Yuzhny Sea Port.
Оksana Savenko +3 more
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Veterinární Medicína, 2014 An adult, female harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena relicta) was found stranded on the southern Aegean Sea coast of Turkey. Thirteen holes made by copepods were observed on the lateral sides of the porpoise.
E. Danyer +5 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of the most abundant coastal cetacean species in the Northern Hemisphere with differential levels of regional knowledge.
Cindy R. Elliser, Anna Hall, Anna Hall
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Diurnal variation in harbour porpoise detection – potential implications for management [PDF]
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Brookes, K L +4 more
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