Hello all, On behalf of Dr. Stefanie Gazda and myself, we are happy to share our recent publication with you titled "Fifty Shades of Gray: The First Leucistic Bottlenose Dolphin (*Tursiops truncatus*) Sighting off the Cedar Keys, Florida, Gulf of Mexico" published in Aquatic Mammals.
Gazda, S. K., and M. L. Russell. 2022. Fifty Shades of Gray: The First Leucistic Bottlenose Dolphin (*Tursiops truncatus)* Sighting off the Cedar Keys, Florida, Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Mammals; 48(6), 661-665, DOI 10.1578/AM.48.6.2022.661 Summary: This is the first sighting by dedicated marine mammal researchers of a hypopigmented, suspected leucistic bottlenose dolphin in the north-eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The adult female dolphin nursing a normally colored calf makes the sighting even more unusual. The use of news articles that are over 50 years old aided in the creation of this paper and represents a potentially useful dataset of information in public records regarding rare sightings such as leucistic marine mammals in never-before-reported locations like the north-eastern GOM. This paper is available OPEN ACCESS here: https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.48.6.2022.661 Many thanks, Mackenzie Russell Mackenzie Russell, MS Alabama Marine Mammal Stranding Network Stranding Coordinator Dauphin Island Sea Lab mruss...@disl.org
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