Bottlenose dolphin
Context specific signal plasticity of two common bottlenose dolphin ecotypes (Tursiops truncatus) in Far North waters, New Zealand : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Conservation Biology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
... captivity, bottlenose dolphin mothers and calves called more often when separated (McCowan & Reiss, 1995; Smolker et ...utilised. Dolphin contact behaviour may aid the formation and repair of ...
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Personality and Affiliation in a Cooperative Task for Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Dyads
... behaviors. Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) live in social communities and cooperate with other conspecifics to achieve goals both in the wild and in human ...5 bottlenose dolphin pairs at ...
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Conditioned frequency dependent hearing sensitivity reduction in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
... However, many features of the effect remained undefined after these studies and require further investigation. In particular, it is not known yet if the effect depends on the frequency of the loud sound, and if it is ...
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Dynamics of blood circulation during diving in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): the role of the retia mirabilia
... The retia mirabilia are vascular nets composed of small vessels dispersed among numerous veins, allowing blood storage, regulation of flow and pressure damping effects. Here, we investigated their potential role during ...
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Two isoforms of aquaporin 2 responsive to hypertonic stress in the bottlenose dolphin
... This study investigated the expression of aquaporin 2 (AQP2) and its newly found alternatively spliced isoform (alternative AQP2) and the functions of these AQP2 isoforms in the cellular hyperosmotic tolerance in the ...
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Bottlenose dolphin signature whistle variation : a perspective on physical characteristics, long term stability, relatedness, and disturbance effects
... of bottlenose dolphin populations, kin relationships other than mothers with their calves are not necessarily bonded ...in bottlenose dolphins might be influenced more by the social interaction ...
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Structural and functional imaging of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) cranial anatomy
... The availability of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices has stimulated more investigation to determine relationships between anatomical structures within the cetacean head by allowing ...
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Geographic and species variation in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp ) signature whistle types
... Data collection procedures, sub-sampling protocols and contour extraction are as described in Chapter 2. Briefly, acoustic recordings of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp.) whistle vocalizations where ...
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Quantifying dispersal between marine protected areas by a highly mobile species, the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
... of bottlenose dolphin fins showing the three grades of mark severity used in photograph ...Each dolphin was graded from one to three as follows: (a) grade M1 marks, consisting of significant fin ...
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Isolation and phenotyping of potential stem cells from the umbilical cord of the bottlenose dolphin(Tursiops truncatus)
... ABSTRACT We have successfully isolated cells with stem-like properties from bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) umbilical cord. Our results show that this cetacean species has embryonic fetal and adult ...
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Female reproductive success and calf survival in a North Sea coastal bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) population
... At 83%, the survival rate of calves in the present study was similar to that observed in other long-term bottlenose dolphin studies (e.g. 81% in Sarasota Bay, USA [30]; 86% in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand ...
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Human Auditory Discrimination of Bottlenose Dolphin Signature Whistles Masked by Noise: Investigating Perceptual Strategies for Anthropogenic Noise Pollution
... a bottlenose dolphin’s masked hearing thresholds of a pure tone, found similar masking patterns to the aforementioned body of research (Au et ...on dolphin detection of various natural and artificial ...
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Comparative Characterization of the Natural Sounds of the Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus and Odorrana tormota Fundamental in the Startle of the Female Anopheles gambiae
... the Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus recorded by Nortek SA system at a sampling frequency of 8 kHz when moving for fishing and socialising in the wild were supplied by ...
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The east coast of Scotland bottlenose dolphin population : improving understanding of ecology outside the Moray Firth SAC
... Durban et al. (2005) developed a Bayesian multi-site mark-recapture framework to account for the geographical dependencies between study sites, and allow for data collected opportunistically and concurrently by different ...
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New Evidence for Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops spp ) Population Connectivity between Kangaroo Island and South Australian Mainland Waters
... the bottlenose dolphin population of the Adelaide Dolphin ...on bottlenose dolphins. In the Black Sea, the distribution of bottlenose dolphin populations matched areas segregated ...
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Conditioned hearing sensitivity reduction in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
... The conditioned change in hearing sensitivity during a warning sound preceding a loud sound was investigated in the bottlenose dolphin. Hearing sensitivity was measured using pip-train test stimuli and ...
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Dolphin hearing during echolocation: evoked potential responses in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
... The experimental subject was an adult female Atlantic bottlenose dolphin [Tursiops truncatus (Montagu 1821)] named BJ, who was 24years old at the time of the experiment. She was housed in a wire- net ...
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Discovery of a Novel Bottlenose Dolphin Coronavirus Reveals a Distinct Species of Marine Mammal Coronavirus in Gammacoronavirus
... three bottlenose dolphins from which BdCoV HKU22 was detected, only one fecal sample from each bottlenose dolphin was positive for BdCoV HKU22, while the samples collected 7 months before and 13 ...
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Thermoregulation of the intra abdominal testes of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) during exercise
... Dolphins possess a vascular countercurrent heat exchanger (CCHE) that functions to cool their intra- abdominal testes. Spermatic arteries in the posterior abdomen are juxtaposed to veins returning cooled blood from the ...
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Genetic isolation between coastal and fishery-impacted, offshore bottlenose dolphin (Tursiopsspp.) populations
... of bottlenose dolphin populations off north-western Australia ...common bottlenose dolphin (T. truncatus), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin ...among dolphin populations ...
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