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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the level of persistent chlorinated hydrocarbons and heavy metals in different tissues of four harbour porpoises caught at Danish coasts and…
Two harbour porpoises, a male and a female, both around 10 months old, which had to be left alone for periods between bio-acoustical investigations, developed stereotyped motor patterns and signs…
The harbour porpoise and all other cetaceans are totally protected in Danish waters, but not in the waters around Greenland and the Faroe Islands. This means that it is forbidden…
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…