Dear Marmamers,

On behalf of our Editorial Board, I would like to inform you that the issue of the Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals (LAJAM 4:2) is available. This issue includes the following articles:
 
CONTENTS
A southern bottlenose whale examined in the Antarctic ........................ 83
Robert Clarke
 
Record of a specimen of Shepherd’s beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi) from the coast of Santa Cruz, Argentina, with notes on age determination .................................................................................. 97
M. Florencia Grandi, Alejandro D. Buren, Enrique A. Crespo, Néstor A. García, Guillermo M. Svendsen and Silvana L. Dans
 
An Andrew’s beaked whale Mesoplodon bowdoini (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) stranded on the Atlantic Coast of Uruguay ........................................101
Paula Laporta, Ricardo Praderi, Virginia Little and Alfredo Le Bas
 
Biological data on two Hector´s beaked whales, Mesoplodon hectori, stranded in Buenos Aires province, Argentina ...................................113
Humberto Luis Cappozzo, María Fernanda Negri, Bettina Mahler, Verónica V. Lía, Pablo Martínez, Adriana Gianggiobe and Alejandro Saubidet
 
A True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) on the coast of Brazil: adding a new beaked whale species to the western Tropical Atlantic and South America ......................................................................................... 129
Shirley P. de Souza, Salvatore Siciliano, Sandra Cuenca and Bianca de Sanctis
 
Record of the Layard´s beaked whale, Mesoplodon layardii (Gray, 1856), in northeastern Brazil .......................................................................... 137
Rodrigo Maia-Nogueira and José de Anchieta C. da C. Nunes
 
Oceanographic conditions off coastal South America in relation to the distribution of Burmeister’s porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis ................141
Daniza Molina-Schiller, Sergio A. Rosales and Thales R. O. de Freitas
 
Sightings of southern right whales, Eubalaena Australis, off Uruguay ................................. 157
Paula Costa, Ricardo Praderi, Mariana Piedra and Paula Franco-Fraguas
 
Composition and seasonal variation in the diet of the South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) from Quequén, Argentina ..............................163
Amalia A. Suarez, Daniela Sanfelice, Marcelo H. Cassini and Humberto Luis Cappozzo
 
Natural and human disturbance in a rookery of the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus californianus) in the Gulf of California, Mexico..............................................................................................175
Vanessa Labrada-Martagón, David Aurioles-Gamboa and Sergio Francisco Martínez-Díaz
 
Rescue, handling and release of a melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra, stranded in Ceará, NE Brazil................................................ 187
Monica Regina Alves Motta and Cristine Pereira Negrão Silva
 
Dry and rainy season estimations of giant otter, Pteronura brasiliensis, home range in the Yasuní National Park, Ecuador..................................191
Victor Utreras B., Esteban Suárez R., Galo Zapata-Ríos, Geovanna Lasso and Luis Pinos
 
First records of elephant seals on the Guayaquil Gulf, Ecuador: on the ocurrence of either a Mirounga leonina or M. angustirostris ............ 195
Juan José Alava and Raúl Carvajal
 
For non-members of SOLAMAC, subscriptions to LAJAM can be made by check (or money order), in U.S. dollars, payable to "LAJAM". Please send payment to LAJAM/SOLAMAC c/o Nélio Barros, P.O. Box 3184, Sarasota, FL 34230-3184 USA.

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Issues 1(1) and 2(1) are currently out of print. A very limited number of issues 2:2 and 3:1 are available. Other recent issues 3:2, 4:1 and 4:2 are available at a cost of $25 each.
 
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Best regards,

Eduardo Secchi
Editor-in-chief, LAJAM





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