Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Volume 11, Issue 3, May 2026.Abstract Marine mammals can exhibit high plasticity in foraging strategies, but how such plasticity is driven by environmental conditions is poorly understood. The American manatee (Trichechus manatus), a large, endangered herbivore, inhabits marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments.
Camila Carvalho de Carvalho +13 more
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First Description of a Satellite DNA in Manatees’ Centromeric Regions
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Trichechus manatus and Trichechus inunguis are the two Sirenia species that occur in the Americas. Despite their increasing extinction risk, many aspects of their biology remain understudied, including the repetitive DNA fraction of their genomes.
Mirela Pelizaro Valeri +7 more
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Cognition as a Conservation Tool: A Case Study of Florida Manatees and Boat Strikes
Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Boat strikes injure and kill large numbers of Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) each year. Management actions taken to mitigate this threat can be potentially enhanced by consideration of manatee cognitive processes. The role of cognition in marine mammal conservation has received little consideration in the literature.
Gordon B. Bauer +7 more
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Accelerometers can measure total and activity-specific energy expenditures in free-ranging marine mammals only if linked to time-activity budgets [PDF]
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Boyd I.L. +12 more
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Distilling food web dynamics: top–down and bottom–up drivers of extinction and trophic cascades
Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 3, March 2026.Quantifying population dynamics is a fundamental challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology, particularly for species that are cryptic, microscopic, or extinct. Traditional approaches rely on continuous representations of population size, but in many cases, the precise number of individuals is unknowable.
Justin D. Yeakel
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A white humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Atlantic Ocean, Svalbard, Norway, August 2012 [PDF]
, 2013 A white humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) was observed on several occasions off Svalbard, Norway, during August 2012. The animal was completely white, except for a few small dark patches on the ventral side of its fluke.
Bjarni Mikkelsen +28 more
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Jaw anatomy of Potamogale velox (Tenrecidae, Afrotheria) with a focus on cranial arteries and the coronoid canal in mammals [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Afrotheria is a strongly supported clade within placental mammals, but morphological synapomorphies for the entire group have only recently come to light.
Robert J. Brocklehurst +3 more
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The Journal of Physiology, Volume 604, Issue 5, Page 1788-1808, 1 March 2026.Abstract figure legend Unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV)‐based photogrammetry provides measurements equivalent to traditional hand measurements in bottlenose dolphins. Mass estimates derived from UAV measurements closely match the true body mass of live individuals.
Riccardo Cicciarella +7 more
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Marine mammal bycatch in gillnet and other entangling net fisheries, 1990 to 2011
Endangered Species Research, 2013 Since the 1970s the role of fishery bycatch as a factor reducing, or limiting the recovery of, marine mammal populations has been increasingly recognized.
RR Reeves, K McClellan, TB Werner
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Age determination and age related factors in the teeth of Western North Atlantic bottlenose dolphins. [PDF]
, 1980 Teeth were taken from 120 bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, which had stranded on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. The number of annual growth layer groups (GLGs) for each animal was used to construct a growth curve. The growth rate of
Hohn, Aleta A.
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