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Porpoise Research Library

Showing entries tagged with "growth". 75 entries found.
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Harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Read, A. J.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)

Abstract currently unavailable

  • Phocoena phocoena
  • abundance
  • behaviour
  • bycatch
  • captivity
  • capture
  • classification
  • coloration
  • disease
  • distribution
  • diving
  • echolocation
  • feeding
  • growth
  • habitat use
  • hearing
  • life history
  • morphology
  • parasites
  • physiology
  • pollutants
  • predation
  • rehabilitation
  • reproduction
  • skeleton

Finless porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides (G. Cuvier, 1829)

Kasuya, T.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)

Abstract currently unavailable

  • Neophocaena phocaenoides
  • Neophocaena asiaeorientalis
  • behaviour
  • bycatch
  • capture
  • classification
  • coloration
  • disease
  • distribution
  • diving
  • echolocation
  • feeding
  • growth
  • habitat use
  • life history
  • morphology
  • neurology
  • parasites
  • physiology
  • pollutants
  • predation
  • reproduction
  • skeleton
  • vision

Dall’s porpoise Phocoenoides dalli (True, 1885)

Houck, W. J.; Jefferson, T. A.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)

Abstract currently unavailable

  • Phocoenoides dalli
  • abundance
  • behaviour
  • bycatch
  • captivity
  • capture
  • classification
  • coloration
  • distribution
  • diving
  • echolocation
  • feeding
  • growth
  • habitat use
  • life history
  • morphology
  • parasites
  • physiology
  • pollutants
  • predation
  • reproduction
  • skeleton

Burmeister’s porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865

Brownell, R. L. Jr.; Clapham, P. J.
Handbook of Marine Mammals (1999)

Abstract currently unavailable

  • Phocoena spinipinnis
  • behaviour
  • bycatch
  • capture
  • classification
  • coloration
  • disease
  • distribution
  • diving
  • feeding
  • growth
  • habitat use
  • life history
  • morphology
  • parasites
  • pollutants
  • reproduction
  • skeleton

Perinatal growth of delphinoids: Information from aquarium reared bottlenose dolphins and finless porpoises

Kasuya, T.; Tobayama, T.; Saiga, T.; Kataoka, T.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1986)

The early postnatal growth of bottlenose dolphins and finless porpoises was studied using 97 body length records of 61 individuals born in aquariums. The growth rates observed were similar to…

  • Neophocaena asiaeorientalis
  • behaviour
  • bottlenose dolphin
  • captivity
  • comparison
  • growth
  • reproduction

Growth of Dall’s porpoise in the western north Pacific and suggested geographical growth differentiation

Kasuya, T.; Shiraga, S.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1985)

Some growth parameters of the western North Pacific dalli-type Dall's porpoise were estimated from 167 specimens taken with hand-held harpoons on two cruises and compared with data obtained previously from…

  • Phocoenoides dalli
  • comparison
  • growth
  • population structure
  • reproduction

Behavior and segregation of the Dall’s porpoise in the northwestern north Pacific Ocean

Kasuya, T.; Jones, L. L.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1984)

To improve knowledge of the life history of Dall's porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli (True, 1885) that are incidentally caught by the Japanese salmon mothership fishery in the northwestern North Pacific, a…

  • Phocoenoides dalli
  • behaviour
  • distribution
  • growth
  • life history
  • reproduction

The life history of Dall’s porpoise with special reference to the stock off the Pacific coast of Japan

Kasuya, T.
Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute (1978)

The geographical variation of the colour types of the species indicates three local stocks in the northwestern North Pacific and western Bering Sea (WNP/BS), off the Pacific coast of Japan…

  • Phocoenoides dalli
  • behaviour
  • bycatch
  • capture
  • coloration
  • distribution
  • genetics
  • growth
  • life history
  • physiology
  • population structure
  • reproduction

Trends in the maternal investment of harbour porpoises are uncoupled from the dynamics of their primary prey

Read, A. J.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2001)

Harbour porpoises in the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine feed primarily on Atlantic herring. Herring stocks have undergone dramatic fluctuations in abundance over the past three decades due…

  • Phocoena phocoena
  • comparison
  • feeding
  • growth
  • life history
  • reproduction

Factors affecting the recovery of Phocoena sinus, the vaquita or Gulf of California harbor porpoise

Barlow, J.
NMFS Administrative Report No. 86-37 (1986)

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…

  • Phocoena sinus
  • behaviour
  • bycatch
  • conservation
  • distribution
  • feeding
  • growth
  • reproduction

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