Dead Cetacean? Beach, Bloat, Float, Sink
The authors of this work reviewed the possible factors that make a cetacean Beach, Bloat, Float, Sink after death, and how to recognize the origin of the cetacean mortality. Only some carcasses strand, or...
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A taste for squid
The diet of sperm whales stranded in Greece,Eastern Mediterranean This study expands the available knowledge using analysis of the stomach contents from nine individuals stranded in Greece between 2005 and 2014. 48,166 prey remains...
FINS special edition
ACCOBAMS Survey Initiative In summer 2018, the ASI campaign survey teams conducted the first ever large-scale Mediterranean Sea survey of marine megafauna, marine litter and underwater noise. For this effort, 20 countries and 30...
World Marine Mammal Conference
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)...
Trace metals in striped dolphins stranded along the Murcia (Spain) coastline
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...
Circulation of a novel strain of dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) in the Mediterranean Sea
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...
Monitoring of Marine Mammal Strandings Along French Coasts Reveals the Importance of Ship Strikes on Large Cetaceans
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...
Ingestion of macroplastics by odontocetes of the Greek Seas: Often deadly!
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...
Epizootic effect in a pilot whale population
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....
Right whale population decline linked to ocean warming, research says
A report shows that the animal’s food supply shifted, causing them to travel farther for food and moving them closer to shipping lanes
