Dear all, here are some new publications of week 38-40 / 2007, which haven't been announced on MARMAM earlier AFAIK.
By clicking the following link you are guided to a website, where the following references are linked to their according journal homepages. There you can find abstracts and contact information: http://www.mmbib.com/news.php Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Thanks to all of you who sent in reprints to be included in the weekly announcements. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Desportes, G. et al. (2007): Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 286-292. Highfill, L.E. and S.A. Kuczaj II (2007): Do Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Have Distinct and Stable Personalities? Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 380-389. Iñíguez, M.A. and V.P. Tossenberger (2007): Commerson's Dolphins (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) off Ria Deseado, Patagonia, Argentina. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 276-285. Lockyer, C. et al. (2007): Age Determination in Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas): A Quest for Validation of Dentinal Layering. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 293-304. Lotan, M. (2007): Alternative therapeutic intervention for individuals with rett syndrome. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 7(): 698-714. McGuire, T.L. and T. Henningsen (2007): Movement Patterns and Site Fidelity of River Dolphins (Inia geoffrensis and Sotalia fluviatilis) in the Peruvian Amazon as Determined by Photo-Identification. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 359-367. Meletis, Z.A. and L.M. Campbell (2007): Call It Consumption! Re-Conceptualizing Ecotourism as Consumption and Consumptive. Geography Compass 1(4): 850-870. Mowat, R.J.C. (2007): The Kraken and the Colossal Octopus: in the Wake of Sea-Monsters - By BERNARD HEUVELMANS. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 36(2): 449-450. Nicholls, H. (2007): Taxonomy on trial. BOOK REVIEWED - Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put a Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett. Princeton University Press: 2007. 304 pp. $29.95, £17.95. Nature 450(7173): 1161. Prothero, D.R. (2007): Book Review: NEPTUNE'S ARK: FROM ICHTHYOSAURS TO ORCAS. David Rains Wallace. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007. ISBN 978-0-520-24322-4, 282 pp. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 392-393. Pyenson, N.D. and D.M. Haasl (2007): Miocene whale-fall from California demonstrates that cetacean size did not determine the evolution of modern whale-fall communities. Biology Letters 3(6): 709-711. Robineau, D. et al. (2007): Description of a new subspecies of Commerson's dolphin, Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacépède, 1804), inhabiting the coastal waters of the Kerguelen Islands. Mammalia 71(4): 172-180. Savours, A. (2007): Whalers and Free Men: Life on Tasmania's Colonial Whaling Stations - By SUSAN LAWRENCE. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 36(2): 448-449. Simmonds, M.P. (2007): Book Review: WHALES, WHALING AND ECOSYSTEMS. Editors: James A. Estes, Douglas P. DeMaster, Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams, and Robert Brownell. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London. 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24884-7, ISBN-10: 0-520-24884-8. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 390-391. Thewissen, J.G.M. (2007): Book Review: MORPHOLOGY OF THE AUDITORY AND VESTIBULAR ORGANS IN MAMMALS, WITH EMPHASIS ON MARINE SPECIES. Galina N. Solntseva. Pencroft Publishers and Brill Academic Publishers, Sofia, Leiden, 2007. ISBN 9789004162020, 244 pp. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 394-395. Thewissen, J.G.M. et al. (2007): Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of India. Nature 450(7173): 1190-1194. Beasley, I.L. and P.J.A. Davidson (2007): Conservation Status of Marine Mammals in Cambodian Waters, Including Seven New Cetacean Records of Occurrence. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 368-379. PINNIPEDIA Aurioles-Gamboa, D. and F.J. Camacho-Ríos (2007): Diet and Feeding Overlap of Two Otariids, Zalophus californianus and Arctocephalus townsendi: Implications to Survive Environmental Uncertainty. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 315-326. Bjørge, A., N. Øien, and K.-A. Fagerheim (2007): Abundance of Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina) in Norway Based on Aerial Surveys and Photographic Documentation of Hauled-Out Seals During the Moulting Season, 1996 to 1999. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 269-275. Goldstein, T. et al. (2007): Longitudinal Health and Disease Monitoring in Juvenile Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Temporary Captivity in Alaska Compared with a Free-Ranging Cohort. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 337-348. Hayes, V.J. and J.M. Terhune (2007): Underwater Call Sequences of Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) at the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 305-314. Pires, R., H.C. Neves, and A.A. Karamanlidis (2007): Activity Patterns of the Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) in the Archipelago of Madeira. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 327-336. Rausch, R.L., J.C. George, and H.K. Brower (2007): Effect of climatic warming on the Pacific walrus, and potential modification of its helminth fauna. Journal of Parasitology 93(5): 1247-1251. Jenssen, B.M. et al. (2007): Brominated Flame Retardants in North-East Atlantic Marine Ecosystems. Environmental Health Perspectives 115(Supplement 1): 35-41. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Finerty, S.E., G.R. Hillman, and R.W. Davis (2007): Computer-Matching of Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) Nose Scars: A New Method for Tracking Individual Otters. Aquatic Mammals 33(3): 349-358. Larkin, I.L.V., V.F. Fowler, and R.L. Reep (2007): Digesta passage rates in the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Zoo Biology 26(6): 503-515. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de _______________________________________________ MARMAM mailing list MARMAM@lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/marmam
