Fifteen fishing centres on the northern and central coasts of Peru, including large industrial fishing ports and smaller fish landing sites were surveyed for cetacean landings periodically over 29 months,…
Irrawaddy dolphins Orcaella brevirostris and finless porpoises Neophocaena phocaenoides are referred to as facultative freshwater cetaceans because they occupy both fresh- and nearshore marine waters. In Asia, the especially rapid…
Poxvirus infections in marine mammals have been mainly reported through their clinical lesions and electron microscopy (EM). Poxvirus particles in association with such lesions have been demonstrated by EM and…
(...) Inter-specific behavioral interactions in the order Cetacea are diverse and often complex, including predation (e.g. Jefferson el al. 1991), "harassment" (Shane 1995 ; Shelden et al. 1995; Palacios and…
Since 1987, morbillivirus infections have caused serious disease outbreaks with high mortality among aquatic mammals. Baikal seals (Phoca sibirica) in Siberia were involved in an outbreak caused by a virus…
This paper is a contribution to the knowledge of the marine and estuarine cetacean fauna of Pakistani waters and it is based on the investigation of our own material collected…
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An account is given of observations on two dolphin species Sousa plumbea and Neophocaena phocaenoides which belong to the typical fauna of the Indus Delta. Sousa is a permanent inhabitant…