Tursiops truncatus, cetaceans
Strouhal numbers and optimization of swimming by odontocete cetaceans
... of cetaceans are believed to be particularly swift, efficient swimmers, corresponding St data have been extremely ...odontocete cetaceans have been trained to swim steadily behind viewing panels and provide ...
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Behavioural and temporal partitioning of dolphin social groups in the northern Adriatic Sea
... (Tursiops truncatus) in the Gulf of Trieste and adjacent waters (northern Adriatic Sea), based on a 9-year dataset, using social network metrics and association ...
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Ontogeny of swim performance and mechanics in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
... The morphology and swimming kinematics of dolphins are characteristic of the thunniform mode, which is typical of some of the fastest marine vertebrates, including scombrid fishes, laminid sharks and cetaceans ...
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Lung mechanics and pulmonary function testing in cetaceans
... dolphin (Tursiops truncatus gilli, Kooyman and Cornell, 1981). There are several possible explanations for this disparity, including differences in equipment, experimental protocols and physiological ...
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Conditioned hearing sensitivity reduction in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
... A second goal of this study was dictated by the necessity for obtaining more evidence examining the notion that the effect of dampened hearing was due to conditioning and not to some direct (unconditioned) influence of ...
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Functional and organizational aspects of vocal repertoires in bottlenose dolphins "Tursiops truncatus"
... In social groups vocal learning could be used in a variety of ways to gain access to resources. In highly social animals the ability to match sound features of other individuals might help to establish and maintain ...
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The diving physiology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) III Thermoregulation at depth
... active cetaceans have focused primarily on the effects of water temperature or swimming exercise on heat loss (Hampton et ...in cetaceans through changes in the thickness and quality of the insulating ...
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Genetic characterisation and social structure of the East Scotland population of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
... These markers have become quite commonly used in cetacean research. Several studies have characterized nuclear microsatellites for their use in population studies (Valsecchi and Amos, 1996; Shinohara et al.1997; Rooney ...
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POWER OUTPUT AND PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCY OF SWIMMING BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS (TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS)
... of Tursiops are characteristic of the thunniform mode or carangiform with lunate tail (Lighthill, 1969, 1970; Lindsey, 1978; Fish et ...and cetaceans (Lighthill, ...
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Ontogenetic changes in the structural stiffness of the tailstock of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
... The neonatal period is an extremely vulnerable time in the life history of any mammal, due in part to physical limitations on performance (Carrier, 1995). The neonatal dolphin is faced with the remarkable challenge of ...
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Comparison of Diagnostic Techniques for Helicobacter cetorum Infection in Wild Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
... captive cetaceans, and it was suggested that this helicobacter may be involved in the devel- opment of gastritis in cetaceans ...captive cetaceans and others with signs including chronic ...
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Bottlenose dolphins modify behavior to reduce metabolic effect of tag attachment
... (Tursiops truncatus) were trained to swim a set course, either non-tagged (n=7) or fitted with a tag (DTAG2; n=12), and surface exclusively in a flow-through respirometer in which oxygen consumption (V · O2 ...
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Structural and functional imaging of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) cranial anatomy
... (Tursiops truncatus Montagu 1821), two males (WEN and FLP) and one female (CIN), were used in both structural (CT) and functional (SPECT and PET) scanning procedures ...
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Personality and Affiliation in a Cooperative Task for Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Dyads
... Social species can depend on each other for survival, help in the rearing of young, predator defense, and foraging. Personality dynamics between individuals may influence cooperative behaviors. Bottlenose dolphins ...
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Where were they from? Modelling the source stock of dolphins stranded after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using genetic and stable isotope data
... that dolphins tagged within Barataria Bay (BB, Fig. 1) primarily remained within the Bay — and the few that entered coastal waters re mained within 1.75 km of shore (Wells et al. 2017, this Theme Section). Strand- ings ...
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The diving physiology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) II Biomechanics and changes in buoyancy at depth
... mammals have focused on transit-swimming animals moving near the water surface (Fish, 1992). For example, the routine speeds (Lang and Norris, 1966; Lang, 1974; Würsig and Würsig, 1979; Williams et al., 1992), boundary ...
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The metabolic cost of communicative sound production in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
... Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) produce various communicative sounds that are important for social behavior, maintaining group cohesion and coordinating foraging. For example, whistle production ...
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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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Whale and dolphin behavioural responses to dead conspecifics
... Cases of cetacean PAB involving dead adults or subadults are particularly interesting, as these cases may represent expressions of long-lasting attachment and enduring social bonds. In our study, most cases of PAB ...
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Thermal tolerance in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
... (Tursiops truncatus) acclimated to a mid-latitude ...(also Tursiops truncatus) along the coast of California are generally found from the central coast (~38°N) southward; bottlenose dolphins ...
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