Aquatic Mammals (1976)
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Experiences with harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, in captivity: Mortality, autopsy findings and influence of the captive environment
Anderson, S. H.
Aquatic Mammals (1978)
This paper gives a survey of the fate of 67 harbour porpoises collected alive from Danish waters and kept in captivity for bioacoustical and physiological investigations. Even if the harbour…
The role of recorded data in acclimatizing a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Myers, W. A.; Horton, H. C.; Heard, F. A.; Winsett, G.; McCulloch, S. A.
Aquatic Mammals (1978)
In March of 1976, the aquarium’s veterinarian brought a young female harbor porpoise to the aquarium and housed her in a shallow (60 cm) portable pool. The animal had stranded…
Body surface area of juvenile harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena
Andersen, S. H.
Aquatic Mammals (1981)
Informations on the body surface area in dolphins are rare in literature (SLIJPER, 1958; KERMACK, 1948; PARRY, 1949; RIDGWAY, 1972). With the increasing interest in physiology of marine mammals this…
Clinical chemistry and hematologic findings in the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) from Danish waters
Nielsen, E.; Andersen, S.H.
Aquatic Mammals (1982)
Since the first publications of data on the blood composition in the harbour porpoise (ANDERSEN, 1966 and 1968) the autoanalyzing technique has been commonly introduced and the international system for…
Reproduction and reproductive organs in Neophocaena asiaeorientalis from the Yangtse River
Chen, P-X.; Renjun, L.; Harrison, J.
Aquatic Mammals (1982)
Two species of freshwater dolphin are known to have existed in the Yangtse River, China, for over two thousand years. One is a white form, the Baiji (Lipotes vexllifer), the…
Note on the occurrence of Spondylitis deformans in a sample of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena (L.)) taken in Danish waters
Kinze, C. C.
Aquatic Mammals (1986)
(...) Spondolytis deformans, a pathological deformation of the vertebral column, has so far been found in 41 cases in 26 recent and extinct cetacean species, among them the harbour porpoise…
Investigations on cetacean sonar VII: Underwater sounds of Neophocaena phocaenoides of the Japanese coastal population
Kamminga, C.; Kataoka, T.; Engelsma, F. J.
Aquatic Mammals (1986)
This paper describes the sonar sounds from four captive Neophocaena, two males and two females, which were tape recorded and processed with regard to their behaviour in the time and…
Topographic distribution of sizes and density of ganglion cells in the retina of a porpoise, Phocoena phocoena
Mass, A. M.; Supin, A. Ya.; Severtsov, A. N.
Aquatic Mammals (1986)
(...) Dolphins are well-known for their developed hearing and echolocation systems. However, data on the organization of other sensory systems in these animals are limited. Namely, the organization of the…
The conducting system of the heart of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena, Linnaeus, 1758)
van Nie, C. J.
Aquatic Mammals (1988)
The conducting system of the heart of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena, Linnaeus, 1758) is described macroscopically as well as microscopically. The topography and microscopy of this system in the…