Aquatic Mammals (2007)
A previous study indicated no automatic gain control (AGC) in the auditory system of a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) as revealed by recording auditory evoked potentials to simulated echoes (Beedholm…
Biological and ecological factors related to trace element levels in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from European waters
Lahaye, V.; Bustamante, P.; Law, R.J.; Learmonth, J.A.; Santos, M.B.; Boon, J.P.; Rogan, E.; Dabin, W.; Addink, M.J.; López, A.; Zuur, A.F.; Pierce, G.J.; Caurant, F.
Marine Environmental Research (2007)
Selected trace elements (Cd, Cu, Hg, Se, Zn) were measured in the kidneys and the liver of 104 harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded along the coasts of France, Galicia (Spain),…
Low-frequency components in harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) clicks: communication signal, by-products, or artifacts?
Hansen, M.; Wahlberg, M.; Madsen, P. T.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2008)
Underwater sound signals for biosonar and communication normally have different source properties to serve the purposes of generating efficient acoustic backscatter from small objects or conveying information to conspecifics. Harbor…
Skin diseases in cetaceans
Van Bressem, Marie-Françoise; Van Waerebeek, Koen; Flach, Leonardo; Reyes, Julio César; de Oliveira Santos, Marcos César; Siciliano, Salvatore; Echegaray, Monica; Viddi, Francisco; Felix, Fernando; Crespo, Enrique; Sanino, Gian Paolo; Avila, Isabel Cristina; Fraijia, Natalia; Castro, Cristina
Scientific Committee Meeting Documents (2008)
Micro-organisms that are known or suspected to cause skin diseases in cetaceans are briefly reviewed. Viruses belonging to four families i.e. Caliciviridae, Herpesviridae, Papillomaviridae and Poxviridae were detected by electron…
Potential limits to anthropogenic mortality of small cetaceans in coastal waters of British Columbia
Williams, Rob; Hall, Anna; Winship, Arliss
Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. (2008)
Small cetaceans are by-caught in salmon gillnet fisheries in British Columbia (BC) waters. In Canada, there is currently no generic calculation to identify when management action is necessary to reduce…
Effect of pingers on harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) bycatch in the US Northeast gillnet fishery
Palka, D. L.; Rossman, M. C.; VanAtten, A. S.; Orphanides, C. D.
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (2008)
Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) bycatch in the US Northeast gillnet fishery is managed under the Harbour Porpoise Take Reduction Plan (HPTRP), which was implemented on 1 January 1999. The HPTRP…
Functional morphology of the hyolaryngeal complex of the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena): Implications for its role in sound production and respiration
Huggenberger, Stefan; Rauschmann, Michael A.; Oelschläger, Helmut H. A.
Anatomical Record (2008)
In several publications, it was shown that echolocation sound generation in the nasal (epicranial) complex of toothed whales (Odontoceti) is pneumatically driven. Modern hypotheses consider the larynx and its surrounding…
Brucella ceti associated pathology in the testicle of a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Dagleish, M. P.; Barley, J.; Finlayson, J.; Reid, R. J.; Foster, G.
Journal of Comparative Pathology (2008)
Brucellosis is reported increasingly in marine mammals and the marine species of Brucella are capable of causing community acquired zoonotic infections in humans as well as abortion in cattle as…
First case of a monitored pregnancy of a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) under human care
Blanchet, Marie-Anne; Nance, Tiffany; Ast, Colleen; Wahlberg, Magnus; Acquarone, Mario
Aquatic Mammals (2008)
Most of the data collected on the reproduction of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) comes from by-caught or stranded animals and is therefore opportunistic in nature. Harbour porpoises kept in a…
Click train patterns of free-ranging harbour porpoises acquired using T-PODs may be useful as indicators of their behaviour
Koschinski, S.; Diederichs, A.; Amundin, M.
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (2008)
Harbour porpoise signals consist of directional, high frequency stereotypic clicks which can be logged using T-PODs. Variation in interclick intervals (ICIs) can be used to distinguish different acoustic behaviours. So…