[MARMAM] Skeleton deformation on a Southern Right Whale CAndrea Steffen )

2009-05-27 Thread Andrea Steffen
Dear MARMAN Members, On a Research Trip to South America we found in a Museum near Montevideo in Uruguay, a skeleton of a Southern Right Whale with an lot of bony excrescence on several vertebras. Does anybody seen a skeleton with such a deformation? Does anybody know what could be the cause

[MARMAM] New paper: Domoic acid in Kogia from Southeast U.S.

2009-05-27 Thread Spencer Fire
Dear Colleagues: The following paper is now available from the journal Harmful Algae (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15689883) Fire SE, Wang Z, Leighfield TA, Morton SL, McFee WE, McLellan WA, Litaker RW, Tester PA, Hohn AA, Lovewell G, Harms C, Rotstein DS, Barco SG, Costidis A,

[MARMAM] Request for CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine: Health, Disease, and Rehabilitation

2009-05-27 Thread William Rossiter
Wild Earth Foundation (WEF) of Argentina urgently requests a donated copy of the 2001 /CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine: Health, Disease, and Rehabilitation/, edited by Leslie A. Dierauf Frances M.D. Gulland. The book is too expensive for WEF to purchase, but it is a necessary