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Please don't hit the reply button. Make all requests to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers! David Janiger - Curatorial Assistant (Mammals) Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213) 763-3369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janiger Journals ALEKSEEV, A. YU.; E. I. ROZANOVA; E. N. USTINOVA; YU. I. TUMANOV; I. N. KUVSHINOVA and A. M. SHESTOPALOV. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF MARINE BIOLOGY 33(6):425-428. 2007. The prevalence of antibodies to morbilliviruses, Brucella, and Toxoplasma in the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus ponticus maintained in captivity. 0.113 MB ANONMYOUS. FISHERIES 33(3):110, 144. 2008. News item Bonneville Dam problem sea lion removal authorized. 0.106 MB BARACHO, CLARENCIO; SERGIO CIPOLOTTI; ENRICO MARCOVALDI; MOACIR APOLINARIO and MAURIZELIA BRITO SILVA. JMBA2 - Biodiversity Records (Published online) 4pgs. 2007. The occurrence of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the biological reserve of Atol das Rocas in north-eastern Brazil. 0.249 MB BEARZI, MADDALENA; CHARLES A. SAYLAN and CELIA BARROSO. ACTA ZOOLOGICA SINICA 54(1):1-11. 2008. Pinniped ecology in Santa Monica Bay, California. 0.814 MB BENNIKE, OLE; PETER RASMUSSEN and KIM AARIS-SORENSEN. BOREAS 37(2):263-272. 2008. The harp seal (Phoca groenlandica Erxleben) in Denmark, southern Scandinavia, during the Holocene. 0.305 MB BINGYAO CHEN; DONGMEI ZHENG; FEIFEI ZHAI; X. XU; P. SUN; Q. WANG and G. YANG. MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY: ZEITSCHRIFT FUER SAUGETIERKUNDE 73(2):156-164. 2008. Abundance, distribution and conservation of Chinese white dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Xiamen, China. 0.560 MB BREDHULT, CAROLINA; BRITT-MARIE BACKLIN; ANDERS BIGNERT and MATTS OLOVSSON. REPRODUCTIVE TOXICOLOGY 25(2):247-255. 2008. Study of the relation between the incidence of uterine leiomyomas and the concentrations of PCB and DDT in Baltic gray seals. 0.472 MB CARBALLO, MATILDE; MANUEL ARBELO; FERNADO ESPERON; MARINA MENDEZ and ANA DE LA TORRE and MARIA JESUS MUNOZ. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY 23(2):200-210. 2008 Organochlorine residues in the blubber and liver of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) stranded in the Canary Islands, North Atlantic Ocean. 0.354 MB CARRERA, M. L.; E. G. P. FAVARO and A. SOUTO. ANIMAL WELFARE 17(2):117-123. 2008. The response of marine tucuxis (Sotalia fluviatilis) towards tourist boats involves avoidance behaviour and a reduction in foraging. 0.092 MB CARTER, A. M.; M. A. MIGLINO; C. E. AMBROSIO; T. C. SANTOS; F. C. W. RASAS; J. A. D'AFFONSECA; S. M. LAZZARINI; A. F. CARVALHO and V. M. F. DA SILVA. REPRODUCTION, FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT 20(4):537-545. 2008. Placentation in the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis). 1.889 MB CONROY, MICHAEL J.; RICHARD J. BARKER; PETER W. DILLINGHAM; DAVID FLETCHER; ANDREW M. GORMLEY and IAN M. WESTBROOKE. WILDLIFE RESEARCH 35(2):93-102. 2008. Application of decision theory to conservation management: Recovery of Hector's dolphin. 0.196 MB DE BRUYN, P. J. NICO; CHERYL A. TOSH and MARTHAN N. BESTER. JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY 26(2):295-297. 2008. Sexual harassment of a king penguin by an Antarctic fur seal. 0.203 MB DIETZ, R.; R. BOSSI; F. F. RIGET; C. SONNE and E. W. BORN. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 42(7):2701-2707. 2008. Increasing perfluoroalkyl contaminants in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus): A new toxic threat to the Arctic bears. 0.851 MB FAHLMAN, ANDREAS; RORY WILSON; CAROLINE SVARD; DAVID A. S. ROSEN anD ANDREW W. TRITES. AQUATIC BIOLOGY 2(1):75-84. 2008. Activity and diving metabolism correlate in Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus. 0.249 MB View with Acrobat 6.0> GEORGE, JOHN C. and JOHN R. BOCKSTOCE. POLAR BIOLOGY 31(6):751-754. 2008. Two historical weapon fragments as an aid to estimating the longevity and movements of bowhead whales. 0.232 MB GLASS, ALLISON H.; TIMOTHY V. N. COLE; MENDY GARRON; RICHARD L. MERRICK and RICHARD M. PACE III. Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document 08-04. iv + 18p. 2008. Mortality and serious injury determinations for baleen whale stocks along the United States Eastern Seaboard and adjacent Canadian Maritimes, 2002-2006. 0.223 MB HILL, HEATHER M.; TAMMY GREER; MOBY SOLANGI and STAN A. KUCZAJ II. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY 20(1):35-54. 2007. All mothers are not the same: Maternal styles in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 0.240 MB HINTON, MICHAEL and JOHN S. RAMSDELL. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 356:251-258. 2008. Brevetoxin in two planktivorous fishes after exposure to Karenia brevis: Implications for food-web transfer to bottlenose dolphins. 0.258 MB View with Acrobat 6.0> HOOKER, SASCHA K.; TRACY L. METCALFE; CHRIS D. METCALFE; CAROLYN M. ANGELL; JOANNA Y. WILSON; MICHAEL J. MOORE and HAL WHITEHEAD. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 152(1):205-216. 2008. Changes in persistent contaminant concentration and CYP1A1 protein expression in biopsy samples from northern bottlenose whales, Hyperoodon ampullatus, following the onset of nearby oil and gas development. 0.541 MB HUEBINGER, RYAN M.; JOHN C. PATTON; J. CRAIG GEORGE; ROBERT SUYDAM; EDWARD E. LOUIS, JR. and JOHN W. BICKHAM. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES 8(3):612-615. 2008. Characterization of 25 microsatellite loci in bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus). 0.077 MB KAJIWARA, NATSUKO; MAFUMI WATANABE; SUSAN WILSON; TARIEL EYBATOV; IGOR V. MITROFANOV; DAVID G. AUBREY; LEV S. KHURASKIN; NOBUYUKI MIYAZAKI and SHINSUKE TANABE. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 152(2):431-442. 2008. Persistent organic pollutants (POPS) in Caspian seals of unusual mortality event during 2000 and 2001. 0.416 MB KAKUSCHKE, ANTJE; ELIZABETH VALENTINE-THON; SIMONE GRIESEL; TANJA ROSENBERGER; ROGER MUNDRY; URSULA SIEBERT and ANDREAS PRANGE. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 56(4):764-769. 2008. Blood metal levels and metal-influenced immune functions of harbour seals in captivity. 0.122 MB KANNAN, KURUNTHACHALAM; HYO-BANG MOON; SE HUN YUN; TETSURO AGUSA; NANCY J. THOMAS and SHINSUKE TANABE. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING 10(4):552-558. 2008. Chlorinated, brominated, and perfluorinated compounds, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and trace elements in livers of sea otters from California, Washington, and Alaska (USA), and Kamchatka (Russia). 0.409 MB KANNAN, KURUNTHACHALAM and EMILY PERROTTA. CHEMOSPHERE 71(4):649-655. 2008. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in livers of California sea otters. 0.241 MB KASTELEIN, RONALD A.; WILLEM C. VERBOOM; NANCY JENNINGS and DICK DE HAAN. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 123(4):1858-1861. 2008. Behavioral avoidance threshold level of a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phacoena) for a continuous 50 kHz pure tone (L). 0.256 MB LAW, ROBIN J.; PHILIPPE BERSUDER; LISSAA K. MEAD and PAUL D. JEPSON. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 56(4):792-797. 2008. PFOS and PFOA in the livers of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded or bycaught around the UK. 0.305 MB LEA, MARY-ANNE; CHRISTOPHE GUINET; YVES CHEREL; MARK HINDELL; LAURENT DUBROCA and SAM THALMANN. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 358:273-287. 2008. Colony-based foraging segregation by Antarctic fur seals at the Kerguelen Archipelago. 3.910 MB View with Acrobat 6.0> LEIGHTON, TIM; DAN FINFER; ED GROVER and PAUL WHITE. ACOUSTICS BULLETIN 32(1):17-21. 2007. An acoustical hypothesis for the spiral bubble nets of humpback whales, and the implications for whale feeding. 0.780 MB LEMELIN, RAYNALD HARVEY; DAVID FENNELL and BRYAN SMALE. JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 16(1):42-62. 2008. Polar bear viewers as deep ecotourists: How specialised are they? 0.326 MB LEONEL, JULIANA; KURUNTHACHALAM KANNAN; LIN TAO; GILBERTO FILLMANN and ROSALINDA C. MONTONE. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 56(4):778-781. 2008. A baseline study of perfluorochemicals in franciscana dolphin and subantarctic fur seal from coastal waters of southern Brazil. 0.133 MB LOCKE, MICHAEL. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 269(4):423-450. 2008. Structure of ivory. 2.491 MB MAKHADO, A. B.; M. N. BESTER; S. P. KIRKMAN; P. A. PISTORIUS; J. W. H. FERGUSON and N. T. W. KLAGES. POLAR BIOLOGY 31(5):575-581. 2008. Prey of the Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella at Marion Island. 0.417 MB MATTHIOPOULOS, J.; S. SMOUT; A. J. WINSHIP; D. THOMPSON; I. L. BOYD and J. HARWOOD. MAMMAL REVIEW 38(2-3):167-188. 2008. Getting beneath the surface of marine mammal - fisheries competition. 0.444 MB MCHALE, M.; D. BRODERICK; J. R. OVENDEN and J. M. LANYON. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES 8(3):669-670. 2008. A PCR assay for gender assignment in dugong (Dugong dugon) and West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus). 0.082 MB MEAGHER, ERIN M.; WILLIAM A. MCLELLAN; ANDREW J. WESTGATE; RANDALL S. WELLS; JAMES E. BLUM and D. ANN PABST. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY 178(2):529-543. 2008. Seasonal patterns of heat loss in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 0.444 MB MELLINGER, DAVID K.; KATHLEEN M. STAFFORD; SUE E. MOORE; ROBERT P. DZIAK and HARU MATSUMOTO. OCEANOGRAPHY 20(4):37-45. 2007. An overview of fixed passive acoustic observation methods for cetaceans. 0.428 MB MILLER, MELISSA; PATRICIA CONRAD; E. R. JAMES; ANDREA PACKHAM; SHARON TOY-CHOUTKA; MICHAEL J. MURRAY; DAVID JESSUP and MICHAEL GRIGG. VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY 153(1-2):12-18. 2008. Transplacental toxoplasmosis in a wild southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis). 0.992 MB MIYAZAKI, MASAYUKI; YUICHI NOGI; YOSHIHIRO FUJIWARA; MASARU KAWATO; KAORU KUBOKAWA and KOKI HORIKOSHI. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 58(4):866-871. 2008. Neptunomonas japonica sp. nov., an Osedax japonicus symbiont-like bacterium isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off Kagoshima, Japan. 0.128 MB MONTIE, ERIC W.; SCOTT R. GARVIN; PATRICIA A. FAIR; GREGORY D. BOSSART; GREG B. MITCHUM; WAYNE E. MCFEE; TODD SPEAKMAN; VICTORIA STARCZAK and MARK E. HAHN. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 269(4):496-511. 2008. Blubber morphology in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the southeastern United States: Influence of geographic location, age class, and reproductive state. 1.354 MB MORELL, VIRGINIA. SCIENCE (WASHINGTON D. C.) 320(5872):44-45. 2008. (Conservation biology) Puzzling over a Steller whodunit. 1.184 MB MURATA, SATOKO; SHIN TAKAHASHI; TETSURO AGUSA; NANCY J. THOMAS; KURUNTHACHALAM KANNAN and SHINSUKE TANABE. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 56(4):641-649. 2008. Contamination status and accumulation profiles of organotins in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) found dead along the coasts of California, Washington, Alaska (USA), and Kamchatka (Russia). 0.266 MB NIEMEYER, MISTY; TIM V. N. COLE; CYNTHIA L. CHRISTMAN; PETER DULEY and ALLISON H. GLASS. Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document 08-06. iii + 6p. 2008. North Atlantic Right Whale Sighting Survey (NARWSS) and Right Whale Sighting Advisory System (RWSAS): 2007 results summary. 1.081 MB NOREN, SHAWN R.; DARYL J. BONESS; SARA J. IVERSON; JIM MCMILLAN and W. DON BOWEN. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY 81(3):269-277. 2008. Body condition at weaning affects the duration of the postweaning fast in gray seal pups (Halichoerus grypus). 0.326 MB PARSONS, E. C. M. and NAOMI A. ROSE. TOURISM IN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS 5(1):67-71. 2008. Whalewatching and the International Whaling Commission: A report of the 2007 Sub-Committee Meeting. 0.044 MB PEREZ-ALVAREZ, MARIA JOSE; EMILIA ALVAREZ; ANELIO AGUAYO-LOBO and CARLOS OLAVARRIA. NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH 41(4):405-409. 2007. Occurrence and distribution of Chilean dolphin (Cephalorhynchus eutropia) in coastal waters of central Chile. 0.557 MB PETHERICK, ANNA. NATURE (LONDON) 452(7187):515. 2008. Flirty in pink: Dolphins turn on the charm. 0.165 MB PLEIJEL, FREDRIK; GREG W. ROUSE; CHRISTINE RUTA; HELENA WIKLUND and ARNE NYGREN. ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 152(4):625-634. 2008. Vrijenhoekia balaenophila, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off California. 0.650 MB PURDY, ROBERT W. and MARK D. UHEN. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 28(1):251-252. 2008. Agabelus porcatus (Cetacea, Odontoceti) is a stingray spine. 0.159 MB RENNER, MARTIN and KEVIN BELL. ARCTIC 61(1):102-104. 2008. A white killer whale in the central Aleutians. 2.225 MB ROSSMAN, MARJORIE C. Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document 07-19. 28p. 2007. Allocating observer sea days to bottom trawl and gillnet fisheries in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions to monitor and estimate incidental bycatch of marine mammals. 0.523 MB ROZENGART, E. V. and N. E. BASOVA. DOKLADY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS 416(1-6):260-263. 2007. (Original Russian text published in Doklady Akademii Nauk 416(3):412-415. 2007) Enzymological characteristic of the cholinesterase from the caudate nucleus of the Ladoga seal (Phoca hispida ladogensis). 0.177 MB SAND, PETER H. REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (RECIEL) 17(1):56-71. 2008. Japan's 'Research Whaling' in the Antarctic Southern Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean in the face of the Endangered Species Convention (CITES). 0.217 MB STIRLING, IAN; EVAN RICHARDSON; GREGORY W. THIEMANN and ANDREW E. DEROCHER. ARCTIC 61(1):14-22. 2008. Unusual predation attempts of polar bears on ringed seals in the southern Beaufort Sea: Possible significance of changing spring ice conditions. 5.057 MB STODDARD, ROBYN A.; EDWARD R. ATWILL; FRANCES M. D. GULLAND; MELISSA A. MILLER; HAYDEE A. DABRITZ; DAVE M. PARADIES; KAREN R. WORCESTER; SPENCER JANG; JUDY LAWRENCE; BARBARA A. BYRNE and PATRICIA A. CONRAD. PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 123(3):360-370. 2008. Risk factors for infection with pathogenic and antimicrobial-resistant fecal bacteria in northern elephant seals in California. 0.559 MB TERHUNE, JOHN M.; DOUGLAS QUIN; ANDREA DELL'APA; MANDANA MIRHAJ; JOACHIM PLOETZ; LARS KINDERMANN and HORST BORNEMANN. POLAR BIOLOGY 31(6):671-680. 2008. Geographic variations in underwater male Weddell seal trills suggest breeding area fidelity. 0.548 MB VANCE, ERIK. NATURE (LONDON) 452(7187):525-526. 2008. Truly gross anatomy. 0.429 MB VELA, A. I.; A. FERNANDEZ; A. ESPINOSADE LOS MONTEROS; J. GOYACHE; P. HERRAEZ; B. TAMES; F. CRUZ; L. DOMINGUEZ and J. F. FERNANDEZ-GARAYZABAL. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 58(4):891-894. 2008. Lactobacillus ceti sp. nov., isolated from beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris). 0.111 MB VON BIELA, VANESSA R.; J. WARD TESTA; VERENA A. GILL and JENNIFER M. BURNS. JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT 72(3):618-624. 2008. Evaluating cementum to determine past reproduction in northern sea otters. 0.403 MB WILEY, DAVID N.; JUST C. MOLLER; RICHARD M. PACE III and CAROLE CARLSON. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 22(2):450-457. 2008. Effectiveness of voluntary conservation agreements: Case study of endangered whales and commercial whale watching. 0.568 MB YIXING JIANG; MICHAEL LUCK and E. C. M. PARSONS TOURISM REVIEW INTERNATIONAL 11:237-249. 2008. Public awareness, education, and marine mammals in captivity 0117 MB YONEZAKI, SHIROH; MASASHI KIYOTA and NORIHISA BABA. FISHERIES OCEANOGRAPHY 17(3):231-238. 2008. Decadal changes in the diet of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) migrating off the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan. 0.271 MB _______________________________________________ MARMAM mailing list MARMAM@lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/marmam