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Vibrissae Length as a Morphological Proxy for Foraging Behavior in Pinnipeds

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Foraging behavior is a key driver of ecological and evolutionary processes. Individual specialization can influence the behavioral flexibility of populations in response to environmental change, making it crucial to account for individual variation.
Svenja Stoehr, Alexandra K. Childs, Oliver Krüger, Paolo Piedrahita, Jonas F. L. Schwarz   +4 more
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Convergent? Minds? Some questions about mental evolution [PDF]

, 2017
In investigating convergent minds, we need to be sure that the things we are looking at are both minds and convergent. In determining whether a shared character state represents a convergence between two organisms, we must know the wider distribution and
Cartmill, Matt
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First Comprehensive Study of Telomere Length Measured by Southern Blot Hybridization and Oxidative Stress Across 12 Captive Marine Mammal Species

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Telomeres, repetitive nucleotide sequences at chromosome ends, shorten with oxidative damage and cell replication, and are increasingly used as biomarkers of stress and physiological state. Despite this potential, telomere length (TL) in marine mammals has been measured using Southern blot hybridization in only a few cases, often from ...
Haruka Nakajin, Satoko S. Kimura, Yuichi Mizutani, Koji Kanda, Takashi Kamio, Kensuke Yamada, Rieko Toriyama, Takaomi Ito, Ikuo Wakabayashi, Sayo Sonezaki, Yasuaki Niizuma   +10 more
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Efecto de actividades turísticas sobre el comportamiento de fauna representativa de las Islas Galápagos, Ecuador Short-term effects of tourism activities on the behavior of representative fauna on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2010
Fueron consideradas clave para actividades turísticas en 16 sitios de las Islas Galápagos: la raya sartén marmoleada (Taeniura meyeri), raya águila (Aetobatus narinari), tiburón de aleta blanca (Triaenodon obesus), tortuga verde (Chelonia mydas ...
Fernanda González-Pérez, Priscilla Cubero-Pardo   +1 more
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Diet of California sea lions, Zalophus californianus, at San Jorge Island, northern Gulf of California, Mexico, 1998–1999

Ciencias Marinas, 2005
The California sea lion, Zalophus californianus (Lesson, 1828), is the only resident pinniped in the Gulf of California, the largest populations inhabiting the Midriff islands and the northern gulf. San Jorge Island, in the northern gulf, has the second
Eric Mellink, Adriana Lucía Romero-Saavedra   +1 more
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A novel quantitative real-time PCR diagnostic assay for fecal and nasal swab detection of an otariid lungworm, Parafilaroides decorus

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020
Parafilaroides decorus, also known as sea lion lungworm, is a metastrongyloid nematode that infects otariid hosts, such as the charismatic California sea lion, Zalophus californianus. P. decorus causes bronchointerstitial pneumonia, respiratory distress,
Kalani M. Williams, M.K. Fessler, R.A. Bloomfield, William D. Sandke, Clara R. Malekshahi, Caroline D. Keroack, Pádraig J. Duignan, Samantha D. Torquato, Steven A. Williams   +8 more
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Estimates of Marine Mammal, Sea Turtle, and Seabird Mortality in the California Drift Gillnet Fishery for Swordfish and Thresher Shark, 1996–2002 [PDF]

, 2004
Estimates of incidental marine mammal, sea turtle, and seabird mortality in the California drift gillnet fishery for broadbill swordfish, Xiphias gladius, and common thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, are summarized for the 7-year period, 1996 to 2002 ...
Caretta, James V., Petersen, Don, Price, Tim, Read, Robert   +3 more
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Exploring Marine Mammal Cognition as a Conservation Tool

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Cognition is an animal's real‐time adaptation system for responding to change. Rapid environmental change, often anthropogenic, is expanding the range and severity of challenges confronting wild animals. Effective conservation requires a multifaceted approach that includes animals' capacities.
Gordon B. Bauer, Peter F. Cook, Heidi E. Harley, Jason Bruck, Mel Cosentino, Charles J. Deutsch, Nicola Erdsack, Wendi Fellner, Tabitha Gunnars, Heather Manitzas Hill, Sonia V. Kumar, Malin K. Lilley, Katherine A. McHugh, Jennifer Moore, Juliana R. Moron, Andrea Ravignani, Roger L. Reep, Athena M. Rycyk, Laela S. Sayigh, Anikó Szegedi, Christina Toms, Randall S. Wells   +21 more
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Rescue, rehabilitation, and release of marine mammals: An analysis of current views and practices. [PDF]

, 1996
Stranded marine mammals have long attracted public attention. Those that wash up dead are, for all their value to science, seldom seen by the public as more than curiosities.
Geraci, Joseph R., Lounsbury, Valerie J., St. Aubin, David J.   +2 more
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Respiratory function and mechanics in pinnipeds and cetaceans [PDF]

, 2017
Author Posting. © Company of Biologists, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of Company of Biologists for personal use, not for redistribution.
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