https://accobams.org This fin whale, well known to experts in the ACCOBAMS area since it has been photographed several times, appears thinned and weakened, with numerous parasites, following the loss of its tail fin last...

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...

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...

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...

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....