Cetacean strandings have typically been classified into two types: 1) single strandings (including a mother/offspring pair); and 2) mass strandings. Singly stranded cetaceans have been reported world-wide wherever populations of…
Harbour Porpoises Phocoena phocoena were counted along a 270-km-long transect around southwestern Ireland on 17 July 1989, a day with exceptionally favourable weather conditions. A total of 251 porpoises were…
We compared the contents of 31 stomachs of harbour porpoise calves killed in commercial gill nets in the Bay of Fundy between July and September, 1985–1991, with the stomach contents…
(...) The harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is found in coastal temperate and subarctic waters of the Northern Hemisphere (Gaskin et al. 1974). Although the species’ biology has been well documented…
This study shows that in Bottlenose dolphins and in Harbour porpoises the presence of marginal papillae is age related. In Bottlenose dolphins the papillae disappear around the age of 16…
In March 1988 three Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) were stranded on the Dutch coast and sent to the Harderwijk Marine Mammal Park for rehabilitation. The following parameters were recorded during…
The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is a small porpoise found only in the northern Gulf of California. This species may have been subject to high levels of mortality in the gill-net…
The objective of this study was to assemble the components of an energy budget for the harbour porpoise in the western Bay of Fundy, Canada. The annual energetic requirements for…
(...) This document attempts to gather together as much information as is available on the extent of current killings of small cetaceans throughout the world, and also to highlight some…
This paper reviews the current state of knowledge of the food habits of the poorly known small cetaceans of the Southern Ocean and presents new information obtained through a study…