[MARMAM] New paper: Determining Pacific walrus sex using mandible measurements

2020-06-22 Thread Casey Clark
Hello MARMAM Members, On behalf of my colleagues and myself, I am pleased to share our new paper “Determining sex of adult Pacific walruses from mandible measurements”, now available on early view at the Journal of Mammalogy. The article can be accessed here: https://bit.ly/2BtEpfC

[MARMAM] New publication: No evidence of microplastics in Antarctic fur seal scats

2020-06-22 Thread Odei Garcia-Garin
Dear MARMAM list members, On behalf of my co-authors, I am pleased to share our recent study: No evidence of microplastics in Antarctic fur seal scats from a hotspot of human activity in Western Antarctica Garcia-Garin, O., García-Cuevas, I., Drago, M., Rita, D., Parga, M., Gazo, M., Cardona, L.

[MARMAM] New publication: Influence of acoustic habitat variation on Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) in shallow waters of Hainan Island, China

2020-06-22 Thread Francesco Caruso
Dear MARMAM readers, we are pleased to share the publication of our Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Francesco Caruso, Lijun Dong, Mingli Lin, Mingming Liu, Wanxue Xu, and Songhai Li. Influence of acoustic habitat variation on Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sous

[MARMAM] First confirmed stranding of a True's beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) in the UK

2020-06-22 Thread Mariel ten Doeschate
Dear all, My co-authors and I are pleased to announce the publication of this short note on the first confirmed stranding of a *True’s beaked whale* (*Mesoplodon mirus*) in Britian, which was published in Mammal Communications earlier this month. The 490cm long female stranded on a rocky shore at

[MARMAM] Recent publication on the acoustic presence of fin whales in the Bering Strait region

2020-06-22 Thread Erica Escajeda
Dear MARMAM Community, It is with great pleasure that I, along with my co-authors, announce our recent publication: Variability in fin whale (*Balaenoptera physalus*) occurrence in the Bering Strait and southern Chukchi Sea in relation to environmental factors *Abstract*: Fin whales (*Balaenopte