Rehabilitation and homing behavior of a satellite-tracked harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)

Schofield, David T.; Early, Greg; Wenzel, Frederick W.; Matassa, Keith; Perry, Cindi; Beekman, Gerry; Whitaker, Brent; Gebhard, Erika; Walton, Wendy; Swingle, Mark
Aquatic Mammals (2008)

A yearling male harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) stranded alive on the shores of Avon, North Carolina, and was rehabilitated for nearly 10 mo at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and…


The development of spatial positions between mother and calf of Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) maintained in captive and seminatural environments

Xian, Yijie; Wang, Kexiong; Jiang, Wenhua; Zheng, Bangyou; Wang, Ding
Aquatic Mammals (2012)

For many toothed whales, two predominant and multifunctional spatial positions occur between a mother/calf pair after birth: (1) the echelon position and (2) the infant position. Other nonpredominant positions also…