Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde (1974)
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…
Preliminary study of movements of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Bay of Fundy using radiotelemetry
Gaskin, D. E.; Smith, G. J. D.; Watson, A. P.
Canadian Journal of Zoology (1975)
Six harbor porpoises captured in herring weirs between September 1973 and September 1974 on the southern coast of New Brunswick were tagged and released. The three smallest animals were given…
Polychlorinated hydrocarbons and heavy metals in harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) from Danish waters
Andersen, S. H.; Rebsdorff, A.
Aquatic Mammals (1976)
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…
Possible predator-related adaption of sound production and hearing in the harbour porpoise
Andersen, S. H.; Amundin, M.
Aquatic Mammals (1976)
Abstract currently unavailable
Notes on the small cetaceans off the coasts of France
Duguy, R.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1977)
(...) Strandings of cetaceans on the coasts of France have been the object of systematic study, published in the form of annual reports, only since 1971. From that date until…
Catch of belugas, narwhals and harbour porpoises in Greenland, 1954-75, by year, month and region
Kapel, F. O.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1977)
Preliminary notes on the occurrence and exploitation of smaller Cetacea in Greenland were presented in a previous paper (Kapel, 1975). In the present paper a more detailed presentation of the…
Contribution to the knowledge of morphological anomalies in cetacean teeth
Arvy, L.
Investigations on Cetacea (1977)
Abstract currently unavailable
Harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (L.) in the western approaches to the Bay of Fundy 1969-75
Gaskin, D. E.
Report of the International Whaling Commission (1977)
(...) Studies on the biology and ecology of the species [harbour porpoise] by the University of Guelph, largely sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada, were begun in the…
A harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758), from the Mackenzie River delta, Northwest Territories, Canada (Notes on Cetacea, Delphinoidea VIII)
Van Bree, P. J. H.; Sergeant, D. E.; Hoek, W.
Beaufortia (1977)
A Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, taken from near Shallow Bay, Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories (68°48’ N 136°35’ W) in July 1973 represents a range extension 800 km eastwards from…
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…