J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. (1973)
This paper comprises sight records for nine species and morphometries, color descriptions, and miscellaneous notes on the food and parasites of seven species of small odontocetes observed from West Greenland…
This paper comprises sight records for nine species and morphometries, color descriptions, and miscellaneous notes on the food and parasites of seven species of small odontocetes observed from West Greenland…
Besides the already known low‐frequency components of the Phocoena echolocation pulse, a narrow‐band pulse of 0.1‐msec duration, with the main energy between 110 and 150 kHz and a source level…
(...) Six complete [N. phocaenoides] (3 male, 3 female) have been collected in the Karachi Waters and in the Indus Delta Region by G. PILLERI. The testes and ovaries of…
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This study confirms earlier observations of apparently involuntary movements, strongly associated with the breathing. The movements include taxes - a dorsal flexure of the thorax and steering movements with the…
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(...) Phocoena spinipinnis has only twice been recorded off the Atlantic coast of South America. Once by BURMEISTER [1865], who published the original description of the species, and once by…
This paper describes the fatty acid components of oils contained in different blubbers of Finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides. The sample oils were almost entirely triglycerides, but contained only trace amouts…
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The rearing of unweaned dolphins has hitherto not been described in literature. In 1973 our laboratory received 2 juvenile harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and we succeeded in rearing them on…