Aquatic Mammals (1988)
Information on the harbour porpoise in Polish waters is reviewed and a corrected and updated list of catches, strandings and sightings given. The number of records per year has changed…
Information on the harbour porpoise in Polish waters is reviewed and a corrected and updated list of catches, strandings and sightings given. The number of records per year has changed…
The heart rates of 3 Harbour porpoises (recorded for 26 days) showed individual variation. Electrocardiograms of two of these animals, made while they were on land, showed respiratory arrhythmia. The…
The post-mortem findings in 38 stranded harbour porpoises during the period 23rd March 1983 to 25th June 1986 in The Netherlands results in a general view about the parasitological status…
(...) The anatomy of the odontocete brains indicates that they can taste but cannot smell. Apparently, when the blowhole migrated to the top of the head, the neural pathways for…
This study shows that in Bottlenose dolphins and in Harbour porpoises the presence of marginal papillae is age related. In Bottlenose dolphins the papillae disappear around the age of 16…
In March 1988 three Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) were stranded on the Dutch coast and sent to the Harderwijk Marine Mammal Park for rehabilitation. The following parameters were recorded during…
(...) Tuberous organs in the integument of the harbour porpoise were briefly described for the first time in connection with other nerve end corpuscles in the tongue (Behrmann, 1988). A…
From length and girth measurements of live stranded animals, treated at the Harderwijk Marine Mammal Park, a formula has been developed to calculate the body weight of Harbour porpoises from…
Eighty-one dead cetaceans of a variety of species and from British waters were examined for evidence of skin disease and 69% were found to be affected. The most common conditions…
The medical treatment of a 4-year-old female Harbour porpoise which was stranded on the Dutch coast is described. The animal was emaciated on arrival at Harderwijk, and survived for 3…