Hi all,
two new publications on Australian sea lions; one using animal-borne sensors to
map oceanographic conditions during a seasonal upwelling event and how these
conditions impact on adult male foraging behaviour, the other at gross
differences in trophic ecology of adult females between
A pod of pilot whales exhibited some strange behaviour whilst in shallow
water on the Shetland Islands, UK the other day. A description of the
encounter, along with photos and video can be accessed by going to
http://www.earthinfocus.com/blog/detail.php?id=13.
We'd be interested to hear from
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to inform you that the following report was recently published:
Wall D., Murray C., O'Brien J., Kavanagh L., Wilson C., Ryan C., Glanville B.,
Williams D., Enlander I., O'Connor I., McGrath D., Whooley P. and Berrow S.
(2013). Atlas of the distribution and
Dear Colleagues,
The following paper was recently published in Marine Biology Research. The
article is available from the publisher website
(http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/f24uYWV4sSib3F9X49vt/full) or by request to
me.
Kind regards,
Mónica Silva
Silva MA, Prieto R, Cascão I,
Dear colleagues,
the following article has just been published online:
Bonizzoni S., Furey N., Pirotta E., Valavanis V.D., Würsig B., Bearzi G.
2013.
Fish farming and its appeal to common bottlenose dolphins: modelling habitat
use in a Mediterranean embayment.
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of a new popular science book on
the subject of dolphin cognition: Are Dolphins Really Smart? The Mammal
Behind the Myth from Oxford University Press.
The book provides a scholarly overview of the past five decades' worth of
research