[MARMAM] Course on Diseases of Marine Mammals UAB, Barcelona, June 2022

[Mariano Domingo Alvarez]

Dear all,
The Autonomous University of Barcelona organizes from June/20 to July/8, 2022, 
the second edition of the summer school course dedicated to Diseases of Marine 
Mammals. Participants (with a limit of 30 students) will learn on the main 
diseases and threats that affect wild cetaceans and pinnipeds (bacterial, 
viral, and parasitic infections, as well as anthropogenic influences and other 
non-infectious problems). The course will also pay attention to the 
methodologies of disease detection and investigation. As part of the practical 
training, a full necropsy of a dolphin (frozen and thawed for the course) will 
be performed at the necropsy room of the Veterinary Faculty. Information on 
diseases will be also complemented with a practical session of 3 hr. at the 
microscope, visualizing slides of specific diseases at the microscopy 
laboratory.

The course will be presential, from Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 
and students are expected to spend between two and three hours per day on 
self-guided learning. A total of 6 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and 
Accumulation System) will be certified once the course has been satisfactorily 
completed.
The course is directed to veterinary medicine and marine biology graduate 
students in the last years of training, and to master students willing to get a 
comprehensive view of marine mammal diseases.
Registration is open and still there are a few sites available.
For registration and further details visit the UAB web site 
https://www.uab.cat/web/uab-barcelona-summer-school-1345844075637.html
[https://www.uab.cat/web/%22/Imatge/403/619/slide1]
UAB Barcelona Summer School - UAB 
Barcelona
UAB Barcelona Summer School offers a formative offer of undergraduate subjects 
in great knowledge areas held from late June to late July. Most of the courses 
are taught in English, and you can earn between 6 and 12 ECTS
www.uab.cat


For any questions about the contents of the course, mail to: 
mariano.domi...@uab.cat




Mariano Domingo

Profesor del Departamento de Sanidad Animal de la UAB
Investigador del Subp. Enfermedades Exóticas del CReSA

Edifici CReSA, s/n, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma
08193  Bellaterra (Barcelona)
Catalunya
Tel.: +34 93 581 4567
mariano.domi...@uab.cat



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[MARMAM] Odontocete cetaceans foraging behind trawlers, worldwide

[Giovanni Bearzi]

Dear colleagues, 

we just published a comprehensive 51-pp review on cetaceans foraging behind 
trawlers, worldwide. 

For a pdf please contact the first author, Silvia Bonizzoni 
.

Bonizzoni S., Hamilton S., Reeves R.R., Genov T., Bearzi G. 2022. Odontocete 
cetaceans foraging behind trawlers, worldwide. Reviews in Fish Biology and 
Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-022-09712-z

ABSTRACT
Several populations of odontocete cetaceans, including at least 19 species, 
have modified their behavior and adapted to foraging in association with 
trawlers. We review information on odontocete interactions with different types 
of trawlers across 13 Food and Agriculture Organization fishing areas around 
the world. We also review knowledge gaps, the effects on odontocete ecology, 
distribution, behavior and social organization, the main mitigation options, 
and some management avenues that could help reduce incidental mortality. 
Trawlers involved in the interactions varied greatly in gear and target 
species, implying odontocetes have developed behavioral specializations to 
forage under a variety of conditions. Specialized behavior included venturing 
into a moving trawl net to feed on the organisms trapped in the net, feeding on 
fish stirred up by the net, extracting fish from the outer mesh, feeding on 
catch lost during hauling, and scavenging on discarded catch. Foraging behi!
 nd trawlers facilitates access to prey, and in some instances may compensate 
for scarcity of natural prey within areas exposed to intensive fishing or 
environmental degradation. This opportunistic foraging strategy, however, 
exposes the animals to potential harm and mortality in trawl gear. The combined 
effect of facilitated foraging and bycatch on the status and trends of 
odontocete populations is unknown. The economic damage caused by odontocetes, 
e.g. in terms of loss of marketable catch and gear damage, remains largely 
conjectural. Attempts to reduce depredation and/or bycatch in trawl gear have 
included acoustic deterrents and exclusion devices installed in nets, although 
neither technique has proven to be consistently effective.
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A one-page synthesis can be found in the European Cetacean Society (2022) 
poster that can be downloaded from the link below:
https://www.dolphinbiology.org/_download/literature/Bearzi_etal_ECS_2022.pdf


Sincerely,

Giovanni Bearzi
https://www.dolphinbiology.org/people/giovanni_bearzi.htm





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[MARMAM] IFAW Marine Mammal Rescue & Research Stranding Internships - Fall 2022

[Kasper, Kira]

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is currently accepting 
applications for fall 2022 Marine Mammal Stranding Internships.

IFAW Marine Mammal Stranding Internship
Fall (First Week of September, 2022 - Middle of January, 2023)
Complete Applications due: May 1st, 2022

Program Background
IFAW is an international non-profit organization. This internship is based out 
of our International Operations Center in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, USA. 
IFAW's Marine Mammal Rescue and Research program is a federally authorized 
program dedicated to marine mammal stranding response on Cape Cod and 
southeastern Massachusetts. Our program strives to promote the conservation of 
marine mammal species and their habitat by improving the rescue and humane care 
of stranded marine mammals, advancing stranding science, and increasing public 
awareness through education. Cape Cod is a marine mammal stranding "hot spot," 
with an average of over 261 strandings occurring each year. These strandings 
include live and dead seals, whales, porpoises, and dolphins.

Stranding Intern Duties

*   Stranding hotline coverage: answer calls, document reports, educate 
callers, dispatch volunteers, complete associated paperwork and enter data.

*   Marine mammal stranding response and necropsy: assist staff with all 
aspects of marine mammal stranding response, including live animal health 
assessment and supportive care, biological data collection, post-mortem 
examinations and sampling in both field and laboratory settings.

*   Stranding / necropsy readiness: cleaning, organizing and maintaining 
stranding response and necropsy gear, equipment and facilities, restocking kits 
and supplies.

*   Data entry / sample processing: assist in entry of stranding data. 
Assist in organizing, cataloging, disseminating and archiving of photos, 
videos, datasheets, samples, etc.

*   Outreach: assist staff with training and outreach material preparation 
and organization, participate in opportunistic outreach at stranding sites, 
participate in community events.

Please see the following link for the full posting and to apply: 
https://recruiting.ultipro.com/INT1059IFFA/JobBoard/17b588a3-808b-4bc9-aea8-c3385a35ec51/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=5c225ece-7b6b-4906-80e8-86ed72e84a3b

Kira Kasper
Stranding Biologist
Marine Mammal Rescue and Research
290 Summer Street
Yarmouth Port, MA 02675
United States
Please note: my schedule varies regularly and I often work outside of the M-F 
9-5 timeframe.
+1 774 721 1080 (work cell)
+1 508 743 9548 (stranding hotline)
www.ifaw.org
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[MARMAM] SMM Editors' Select Series for April 21st: Tagging, Ranging Patterns, and Behavior of Franciscana Dolphins off Argentina and Brazil with Dr. Randall Wells

[Student Members-at-Large Society for Marine Mammalogy]

Greetings MARMAM!

Join us on *Thursday, 21 April 2022 at 3 PM EDT  (12 PM PDT / 7 PM GMT)* for
the next SMM Seminar Editors' Select Series: Tagging, Ranging Patterns, and
Behavior of Franciscana Dolphins off Argentina and Brazil with Dr. Randall
Wells of the Chicago Zoological Society's Sarasota Dolphin Research
Program. Dr. Wells will be joined by his co-authors, Prof. Marta Cremer,
Leonardo Berninsone and Dr. Krystan Wilkinson, for a Q session following
his presentation

Free to attend. Registration required.
Presented online on Zoom.
Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dTGrhyElS5iYsRTejxMSVQ

Space on Zoom is limited to the first 500 attendees. The talk will also be
streamed live on the SMM Facebook page.

*The SMM Seminar Editors' Select Series highlights the latest and most
exciting marine mammal science published in the Marine Mammal Science
Journal. This is your chance to engage with marine mammal scientists, learn
and ask questions from anywhere in the world. All are welcome. *

*About this talk:*
Franciscanas are the most endangered cetaceans in the Southwestern
Atlantic, where they are exposed to human activities such as artisanal
gillnet fishing and coastal development.  A need for information on ranging
patterns and behavior led to efforts to attach satellite-linked tags to
franciscanas in three bays in Argentina and Brazil during 2005-2013.
Residency, with small home ranges, occurred at each site.  Movements were
influenced by tides.  The dolphins used the entire water column, exposing
them to gillnets regardless of net depth.  Definable ranges facilitate
relating specific geographically based threats to appropriate population
units, increasing the potential for effective conservation.

*About the presenter:*
Randall Wells is a co-founder and directs the Chicago Zoological Society’s
Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, which conducts the world’s
longest-running study of a wild dolphin population.  He began studying
bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida, as a high school volunteer at
Mote Marine Laboratory in 1970. Wells received his Bachelor’s degree in
Zoology from the University of South Florida in 1975, his Masters in
Zoology from the University of Florida in 1978, his PhD in Biology from the
University of California, Santa Cruz in 1986, and he was awarded a
post-doctoral fellowship with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in
1987.  Wells joined the Chicago Zoological Society staff in 1989.  Wells’
current research program uses a collaborative approach to examine the
behavior, social structure, life history, ecology, health, and population
biology of bottlenose dolphins along the central west coast of Florida,
with studies focusing on up to five concurrent generations of a locally
resident ~170-member dolphin community.  Recent research topics include the
effects of human activities on coastal dolphins, such as boat traffic,
fishing activities, human feeding of wild dolphins, and environmental
contaminants, and the impacts of other environmental disturbances such as
red tides.  He has conducted research on a variety of marine mammals
including Hawaiian spinner, Atlantic spotted, franciscana and other dolphin
species, vaquita porpoises, bowhead, humpback, blue, and gray whales, and
manatees. Wells has authored or co-authored 4 books and more than 285
peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.  He has been presenter or
co-author of more than 700 presentations at professional meetings or
invited public or university lectures.  Wells is past-President of the
international Society for Marine Mammalogy, and received the society’s
Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.  Wells also serves on
the Committee of Scientific Advisors on Marine Mammals for the U.S. Marine
Mammal Commission, on the NOAA/USFWS Atlantic Scientific Review Group, and
he is past-chair of the NOAA/USFWS Working Group on Marine Mammal Unusual
Mortality Events.  Wells serves on IUCN’s Cetacean Specialist Group, and on
the Steering Group for the national Animal Telemetry Network.

Best regards,

*Ayça Eleman, Ph.D. Candidate*
*Theresa-Anne Tatom-Naecker, Ph.D. Student*
*Eric Angel Ramos, Ph.D.*
*Student Members-at-Large*
Society for Marine Mammalogy
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[MARMAM] New publication: Adapting photo-ID methods for difficult to ID species

[Cindy Elliser]

Dear Marmam community,

On behalf of my co-authors, I am happy to announce the publication of our
recent paper in Mammalian Biology:

"Adapting photo‑identification methods to study poorly marked cetaceans: a
case study for common dolphins and harbor porpoises"

Full view-only access to the article can be found here:
https://rdcu.be/cKKEK

This article is a contribution to the special issue on “Individual
Identification and Photographic Techniques in Mammalian Ecological and
Behavioural Research – Part 1: Methods and Concepts” — Editors: Leszek
Karczmarski, Stephen C.Y. Chan, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Scott Y.S. Chui and
Elissa Z. Cameron.

Abstract:
Historically, traditional photo-identification (photo-ID) methods have been
applied to cetaceans with relatively small group sizes, closed and/or small
populations, distinctive dorsal fin nicks and/or notches and behavior
allowing for photographic capture. Conversely, species with larger group
and/or population sizes that often occur in open populations, which have
less distinctive natural markings and/or whose behavior is prohibitive for
photographic capture, have not been the focus of many photo-ID studies. We
review two successful photo-ID studies on species that have less
distinctive markings, but differ in habitats and behavior: (1) common
dolphins (Delphinus delphis) that live in oceanic environments, have large
group sizes, occur in open populations and are easily observed and (2)
harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) that live in coastal environments,
have small group sizes, but are behaviorally cryptic and elusive. We
discuss how traditional photo-ID methods were adapted by incorporating
different: (1) identification sides; (2) identification features; (3)
levels of photo quality (PQ); (4) distinctiveness and; (5) methods for
error checking. Adaptations include: using symmetry of the identification
features to determine if both sides of the animal are used, using more than
one identification feature, developing a matrix for describing/ sorting by
the identification features, using three levels of distinctiveness,
incorporating PQ and distinctiveness into a flowchart to identify
distinctively marked individuals (DMIs) and applying a more rigorous review
process to identify possible errors in cataloguing. We discuss how adapting
traditional photo-ID methods will improve our ability to use photo-ID for
species not traditionally studied using this method.

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Best,
Cindy

Cindy Elliser, PhD

Research Director

Pacific Mammal Research

www.pacmam.org

360-202-2860
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[MARMAM] New paper on dolphins communication and social behaviour

[Bruno Diaz Lopez]

Dear colleagues,
I am delighted to share with you my latest study for a better understanding of 
dolphin vocal communication and social behaviour:
Diaz Lopez, B. Context-dependent and seasonal fluctuation in bottlenose dolphin 
(Tursiops truncatus) vocalizations. Animal Cognition (2022). 
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01620-w
AbstractA fundamental question in animal behaviour is the role of vocal 
communication in the regulation of social interactions in species that organise 
themselves into social groups. Context dependence and seasonality in 
vocalizations are present in the communication of many species, although very 
little research has addressed this dependence in marine mammals. Thestudy 
presented here examined variations in the rate at which free-ranging dyads of 
bottlenose dolphins emit social-signals in an effort to better understand the 
relationship between vocal communication and social context. The results 
demonstrate that changes in the social-signal production in bottlenose dolphins 
are related to the sex of the partner, mating season and social affiliation 
between the components of the dyad. In a context of foraging behaviour on the 
same feeding ground, mixed (male–female) dyads were found to emit more pulsed 
burst sounds during the mating season. Another relevant aspect of the study 
seems to be the greater production of agonistic social-signals in the dyads 
formed by individuals with a lower degreeof social affiliation. Overall, this 
study confirms a clear relationship between dyad composition and 
context-specific social-signals that could reflect the motivational state of 
individuals linked to seasonal changes in vocal behaviour.
Please find a free full-text access to read the paper by using the following 
link: https://rdcu.be/cKYHn
I hope you enjoy reading, and please do not hesitate to contact me 
(br...@thebdri.com) if you have any question regarding to this article or to 
request a PDF copy.
Best regards,
Bruno Diaz Lopez Ph.DChief biologist and Director
The Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute BDRI - www.thebdri.comAvenida 
Beiramar 192, O Grove 36980, Pontevedra, SpainTel. 0034 684248552
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