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Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The Mediterranean common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) presents an enigmatic natural history during the past centuries. Widely prevalent in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it faced a significant decline across most of the basin by the late 1960s caused by multiple anthropogenic threats, including culling, bycatch, prey depletion, and habitat ...
Martina Pasino +37 more
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Cetacean diversity and distribution in the coast of Gipuzkoa and adjacent waters, southeastern Bay of Biscay [PDF]
Munibe Ciencias Naturales, 2010 Desde el año 2003, se ha realizado un seguimiento continuo a las poblaciones de cetáceos de la costa guipuzcoana, siguiendo los protocolos de muestreo de cetáceos en mar de la Sociedad Española de Cetáceos.
MARCOS, E., SALAZAR, J.M., STHEPANIS, R. de
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Brucellosis in mammals of Costa Rica: An epidemiological survey.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Brucellosis has been an endemic disease of cattle and humans in Costa Rica since the beginning of XX century. However, brucellosis in sheep, goats, pigs, water buffaloes, horses and cetaceans, has not been reported in the country.
Gabriela Hernández-Mora +16 more
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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Reports of brucellosis in free‐ranging cetaceans are increasing worldwide, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea. To enhance diagnostic accuracy and epidemiological understanding of cetacean brucellosis in the Western Mediterranean Sea, we analyzed bacteriological, serological, and molecular data from 30 cetaceans belonging to three different species ...
Ignacio Vargas-Castro +15 more
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Exploring the Use of Skin Biopsies to Infer Organ Mercury Burden in Long‐Finned Pilot Whales
Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.
Ryan McCarthy +6 more
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Mediterranean Gate Sanctuary for the Protection of Cetaceans
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 35, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT The Alboran Sea, located at the western Mediterranean Sea, hosts a diverse and ecologically important cetacean community, including endangered species. However, current marine protected areas (MPAs) in the region are limited in scope, and existing conservation strategies are insufficient to address the wide‐ranging ecological needs of ...
Joan Giménez +2 more
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Fishing shapes cetacean population density patterns in the Mediterranean basin
Ecography, Volume 2025, Issue 12, December 2025.Human impacts are forcing species towards marginal and suboptimal portions of their historical ranges. Cetaceans are now under protection, but are still threatened by fishing activities, which reduce fish stocks, alter their feeding behavior, and can cause mortality due to bycatch.
Davide Fundaro' +2 more
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Cetacean records along São Paulo state coast, Southeastern Brazil
Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 2010 The São Paulo state (SP) coast (23º18'S, 44º42'W; 25º14'S, 48º01'W) is of approximately 600 km in length, bordering the Western Atlantic Ocean, in southeastern Brazil.
Marcos César de Oliveira Santos +6 more
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Acta virologica, 2017 Dolphin morbillivirus (DMV), a highly pathogenic agent, may cause peculiar, "brain-only" forms of infection (BOFDI), in which viral antigen and/or genome is found exclusively in the brain from striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba). These BOFDIs show morphopathological similarities with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and old dog encephalitis ...
Lucá, R +5 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Aim For several decades, substantial efforts have monitored cetacean distribution and abundance in the western North Pacific. Large‐scale visual‐based line transect surveys have been conducted since the early 1980s, covering almost the entire western North Pacific.
Yu Kanaji, Shiho Furumaki, Hiroko Sasaki
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