Fishery Bulletin (2019)
A dead adult harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) was found on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington on 22 August 2012. The harbor porpoise was skeletonized, with the forestomach being the…
Porpoises the world over: Diversity in behavior and ecology
Teilmann, Jonas; Sveegaard, Signe
Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Odontocetes (2019)
Unlike the large number of species of true dolphins, there are only seven porpoise or phocoenid species, inhabiting different habitats and climate zones. They range from ice-covered water in the…
Quantifying harbour porpoise foraging behaviour in CPOD data: Identification, automatic detection and potential application
Berges, B. J. P.; Geelhoed, S. C. V.; Scheidat, M.; Tougaard, J.
Wageningen Marine Research Reports (2019)
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are regularly monitored to assess how they are impacted by the construction and operation of offshore wind farms. A suitable method to do this is passive…
Time and tide: Seasonal, diel and tidal rhythms in Wadden Sea harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
Zein, Beate; Woelfing, Benno; Dähne, Michael; Schaffeld, Tobias; Ludwig, Stefan; Rye, Jacob Hansen; Baltzer, Johannes; Ruser, Andreas; Siebert, Ursula
PLOS ONE (2019)
Odontocetes have evolved a rich diversity of prey- and habitat-specific foraging strategies, which allows them to feed opportunistically on locally and temporally abundant prey. While habitat-specific foraging strategies have been…
High levels of food intake in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena): Insight into recovery from disturbance
Kastelein, Ronald A.; Helder-Hoek, Lean; Booth, Cormac; Jennings, Nancy; Leopold, Mardik
Aquatic Mammals (2019)
If harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are impaired in their foraging ability because they need to move away from anthropogenic sound sources, their fitness may be reduced. Understanding how much harbor…
A preliminary study on diet of the Yangtze finless porpoise using next‐generation sequencing techniques
Yang, Jiwei; Wan, Xiaoling; Zeng, Xianyuan; Zheng, Jinsong; Han, Yi; Fan, Fei; Hao, Yujiang; Wang, Kexiong; Mei, Zhigang; Wang, Ding
Marine Mammal Science (2019)
...the diet of the Yangtze finless porpoise has been poorly known for a long time because of the lack of studies of stomach contents. Until now, only one study (Chen…
Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) catching and handling large fish on the U.S. west coast
Elliser, Cindy R.; Hessing, Sanne; MacIver, Katrina H.; Webber, Marc A.; Keener, William
Aquatic Mammals (2020)
...This short note documents instances of prey handling and consumption of large fish species along the West Coast of the United States (U.S.), including the Salish Sea (inland waters of…
Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) reaction to a 3D seismic airgun survey in the North Sea
Sarnocińska, Joanna; Teilmann, Jonas; Balle, Jeppe Dalgaard; van Beest, Floris M.; Delefosse, Matthieu; Tougaard, Jakob
Frontiers in Marine Science (2020)
The most common cetacean in the North Sea is the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). Underwater noise is increasingly recognized as a source of impact on the marine environment and seismic…
Harbor porpoise aggregations in the Salish Sea
Anderson, Dave; Shuster, Laurie; Elliser, Cindy R.; MacIver, Katrina; Gless, Erin Johns; Krieger, Johannes; Hall, Anna
Oceans (2023)
Harbor porpoises are typically seen in small groups of 1–3 individuals, with aggregations of 20+ individuals treated as rare events. Since the 1990s, the harbor porpoise population in the Salish…
Blood transcriptome analysis provides responsive changes in gene expression between ex situ and captive Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis)
Cao, Z.; Yin, D.; Li, Z.; Yan, Y.; Zhang, P.; Zhang, S.; Lin, D.; Hua, Z.; Zhang, J.; Ying, C.; Zhang, H.; Xu, P.; Dong, G.; Liu, K.
Fishes (2023)
The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis, YFP) is an endangered species endemic to the Yangtze River in China, and it is the only freshwater whale in the genus Neophocaena.…