Author: Medaces

Together for Science and Conservation 7-8 December 2019 – Pre-Conference Workshops 9-12 December 2019 – Conference Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain In December 2019, the Society for Marine Mammalogy (SMM)...

Heavy metal concentrations in internal tissues of 72 striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from Murcia Region have been investigated for the first time in stranded dolphins during the period 2009-2015. The levels of metal found...

In August-October 2016, seven striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) stranded on the Sicilian coastline (Italy) tested positive for Dolphin morbillivirus (DMV). Results showed that these DMV sequences were almost identical to the ones observed in...

Peltier H, Beaufils A, Cesarini C, Dabin W, Dars C, Demaret F, Dhermain F, Doremus G, Labach H, Van Canneyt O and Spitz J (2019). Monitoring of Marine Mammal Strandings Along French Coasts Reveals...

Macroplastic (> 5 mm) were found in the stomachs of nine individuals from four species of cetacean species (harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena, Risso’s dolphin Grampus griseus, Cuvier’s beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris and sperm whale...

This study assessed the effect of a morbillivirus epizootic on the population size, annual survival rate and population growth rate of free‐ranging long‐finned pilot whales up to 5 years after the epizootic in 2011....

Fossil barnacles, the original GPS, help track ancient whale migrations The new discovery means that the fossilized barnacles recovered at these sites can tell about ancient migrations of humpbacks, gray whales and perhaps other...

The Hellenic Trench is the core habitat of the eastern Mediterranean sperm whale sub-population that numberstwo to three hundred individuals. Major shipping routes running on or very close to the 1000m depth contour along...

All stomachs analysed of the common dolphin stranded on the Galician coasts contained microplastics Hernandez-Gonzalez, Alberto & Saavedra, Camilo & Gago, J & Covelo, Pablo & Santos, M & Pierce, Graham. (2018). Microplastics in...