marine mammals
Durophagous biting in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) differs kinematically from raptorial biting of other marine mammals
... other marine mammals that use biting as their primary feeding mode (Bloodworth and Marshall, 2005; Marshall et ...among mammals of different ...
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Studying the behaviour and sensory ecology of marine mammals using acoustic recording tags : a review
... most marine mammals, it is often difficult to assess the long-term significance of a short-term response (Bejder et ...by marine animals, using both observational and experimental techniques like ...
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Conservation status of marine Mammals in Cambodian Waters, Including Seven New Cetacean Records of Occurrence
... of marine mammals were confirmed from “whale temples,” with over 100 skulls observed at 18 whale temples throughout the country (Smith, ...of marine mammals in Vietnamese ...17 marine ...
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Determining the behavioural dose–response relationship of marine mammals to air gun noise and source proximity
... of marine mammals in response to increased levels of naval sonar also considered the effect of treatment (control versus active) in their initial analysis, though not in the final dose – response analysis ...
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Comparative genomics analyses of alpha-keratins reveal insights into evolutionary adaptation of marine mammals
... among marine mammals and shed light on the mechanisms involved in the evolution of this gene ...in marine mammals was likely to contribute to their hair diversities phenotype although their ...
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Status and future of research on the behavioural responses of marine mammals to U S Navy sonar
... that there might be two different mechanisms as work, one that explains the behaviour at low levels, while a different one such as the sensitization to startling stimuli as demonstrated by Goetz & Janik (2011) may ...
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Wind turbine underwater noise and marine mammals : implications of current knowledge and data needs
... be related to different wind speeds, recording condi- tions and sound radiation patterns, but there are nev- ertheless strong indications that some wind turbines make more underwater noise than others. By far the highest ...
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Arbovirus of Marine Mammals: a New Alphavirus Isolated from the Elephant Seal Louse, Lepidophthirus macrorhini
... in mammals (2). However, none have been described for ma- rine mammals, perhaps due to the paucity of hematophagous arthropods of marine mammals ...
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Taking Marine Mammals
... Our November 18, 2013, Federal Register notice of the proposed IHA described the history and status of Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance for the NE Gateway LNG facility (78 FR 69049). As explained in that notice, ...
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Aversiveness of sound in marine mammals : psycho physiological basis, behavioural correlates and potential applications
... to cause maximum roughness sensation and therefore potentially unpleasantness. The overall most effective sound type was one of the new supposedly unpleasant sounds (Square 500/530) causing deterrence ranges up to 80m. ...
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Ecological diagnostics for marine mammals: Appraisal of molecular based methods for dietary and age estimation
... for marine mammals is particularly challenging due to the inability to observe feeding while they are submerged or far from land (Barros and Wells ...inferring marine mammal diet such as ...
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Ecological diagnostics for marine mammals: Appraisal of molecular based methods for dietary and age estimation
... Traditional molecular ecology has focused on describing the historic processes that lead to contemporary patterns of diversity within populations, species and higher taxa. Molecular tools can also identify the origin of ...
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Static inflation and deflation pressure–volume curves from excised lungs of marine mammals
... of marine mammals. Although it is generally believed that all marine mammals have a compliant rib cage that recoils inward to very low lung volumes and that lung collapse occurs at shallow ...
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Impact Assessment of Offshore Pile Driving Noise on Red Sea Marine Mammals
... the marine biodiversity in the world, it support populations for many species of marine mammals (about 15 species of dolphins and whales, and one dugong ...
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An IS711 Element Downstream of thebp26 Gene Is a Specific Marker of Brucella spp. Isolated from Marine Mammals
... from marine mammals, PCR with primers 26A and 26B was performed on a large number of field strains of Brucella from different geographic origins and a large number of the recent isolates from different ...
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Current state of knowledge of effects of offshore renewable energy generation devices on marine mammals and research requirements
... of marine mammals by OREG noise could have cascade effects on reproduction and survival (as shown in Figure 1), again largely mediated through the hypothalamic-pituitary axis and the stress ...of ...
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A review of Brucella infection in marine mammals, with special emphasis on Brucella pinnipedialis in the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata)
... from marine mam- mals in 1994, from a harbour seal (Phoca vitulina), a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and a common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) in Scotland [28], and an aborted foetus from a captive ...
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Review Papers:Species diversity and distribution pattern of marine mammals of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman - Iranian Waters
... consuming prey contaminated by petroleum residues (Geraci et al., 1999). The Shadegan Marshes Ramsar site in Khuzestan Province at the head of the Persian Gulf has been placed on the Montreux Record due to chemical ...
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An animal-borne active acoustic tag for minimally invasive behavioral response studies on marine mammals
... Tag improvements and additional field testing could strengthen results found here, but the concept of an animal-borne sound source for triggering behavio- ral responses has been validated. The use of this novel ...
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Determining the behavioural dose response relationship of marine mammals to air gun noise and source proximity
... So far, establishing a simple dose – response relationship between a behavioural response and noise exposure levels in marine mammals has proved elusive. In reality, this relationship is an ...
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