eLife (2015)
Toothed whales use sonar to detect, locate, and track prey. They adjust emitted sound intensity, auditory sensitivity and click rate to target range, and terminate prey pursuits with high-repetition-rate, low-intensity…
Temporal changes in abundance of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) inhabiting the inland waters of Southeast Alaska
Dahlheim, Marilyn E.; Zerbini, Alexandre N.; Waite, Janice M.; Kennedy, Amy S.
Fishery Bulletin (2015)
Abundance of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) was estimated from data collected during vessel surveys conducted throughout the inland waters of Southeast Alaska. Line-transect methods were used during 18 seasonal surveys…
Harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena strandings on the Dutch coast: No genetic structure, but evidence of inbreeding
van der Plas-Duivesteijn, Suzanne J.; Smit, Femmie J.L.; van Alphen, Jacques J.M.; Kraaijeveld, Ken
Journal of Sea Research (2015)
Conservation management in the North Sea is often motivated by the population size of marine mammals, like harbor porpoises Phocoena phocoena. In the Dutch part of the North Sea, sighting…
Temporal changes in abundance of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) inhabiting the inland waters of Southeast Alaska
Dahlheim, Marilyn E.; Zerbini, Alexandre N.; Waite, Janice M.; Kennedy, Amy S.
Fishery Bulletin (2015)
Abundance of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) was estimated from data collected during vessel surveys conducted throughout the inland waters of Southeast Alaska. Line-transect methods were used during 18 seasonal surveys…
Predation of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) by grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) in Wales
Stringell, Thomas; Hill, Dave; Rees, Dafydd; Rees, Ffion; Rees, Padrig; Morgan, Greg
Aquatic Mammals (2015)
(...)Grey seals are generalist feeders, taking a wide variety of fish, mollusc, echinoderm, crustacean, and cephalopod prey (Bowen & Harrison, 1994; Hammond et al., 1994; Strong, 1996; Brown et al.,…
The acoustic world of harbor porpoises
Wahlberg, Magnus; Linnenschmidt, Meike; Madsen, Peter; Wisniewska, Danuta; Miller, Lee
Amer. Scientist (2015)
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Biological variables and health status affecting inorganic element concentrations in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from Portugal (western Iberian Peninsula)
Ferreira, Marisa; Monteiro, Silvia S.; Torres, Jordi; Oliveira, Isabel; Sequeira, Marina; López, Alfredo; Vingada, José; Eira, Catarina
Environmental Pollution (2016)
The coastal preferences of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) intensify their exposure to human activities. The harbour porpoise Iberian population is presently very small and information about the threats it endures…
Comparison of dolphins’ body and brain measurements with four other groups of cetaceans reveals great diversity
Ridgway, Sam H.; Carlin, Kevin P.; Van Alstyne, Kaitlin R.; Hanson, Alicia C.; Tarpley, Raymond J.
Brain, Behavior and Evolution (2016)
We compared mature dolphins with 4 other groupings of mature cetaceans. With a large data set, we found great brain diversity among 5 different taxonomic groupings. The dolphins in our…
Contradictory genetic make-up of Dutch harbour porpoises: Response to van der Plas-Duivesteijn et al.
Kopps, Anna M.; Palsbøll, Per J.
Journal of Sea Research (2016)
(...) Recently, van der Plas-Duivesteijn et al. (2015) presented a genetic assessment of harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, along the Dutch coast, which concluded that all analysed Dutch harbour porpoises are…
Conditioned hearing sensitivity change in the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Nachtigall, Paul E.; Supin, Alexander Ya.; Pacini, Aude F.; Kastelein, Ronald A.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2016)
Hearing sensitivity, during trials in which a warning sound preceding a loud sound, was investigated in two harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). Sensitivity was measured using pip-train test stimuli and auditory…