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    Marine Mammal Science: Volume 24, Issue 2

    253-442
    April 2008
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ARTICLES

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Balancing bias and precision in capture-recapture estimates of abundance

Nancy A. Friday,  Tim D. Smith,  Peter T. Stevick,  Judy Allen,  Tom Fernald, 
  • Pages: 253-275
  • First Published: 21 April 2008
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Impact of changing diet regimes on Steller sea lion body condition

Shannon Atkinson,  Donald Calkins,  Vladimir Burkanov,  Michael Castellini,  Daniel Hennen,  Susan Inglis, 
  • Pages: 276-289
  • First Published: 21 April 2008
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Stomach contents of mass-stranded short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) from North Carolina

Vanessa J. Mintzer,  Damon P. Gannon,  Nélio B. Barros,  Andrew J. Read, 
  • Pages: 290-302
  • First Published: 21 April 2008
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Age-related changes in hematocrit in the Galápagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) and the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii)

Fritz Trillmich,  Lorrie Rea,  Michael Castellini,  Jochen B. W. Wolf, 
  • Pages: 303-314
  • First Published: 27 December 2007
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A simple new algorithm to filter marine mammal Argos locations

Carla Freitas,  Christian Lydersen,  Michael A. Fedak,  Kit M. Kovacs, 
  • Pages: 315-325
  • First Published: 27 December 2007

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Modeling whale entanglement injuries: An experimental study of tissue compliance, line tension, and draw-length

Jeremy P. Winn,  Becky L. Woodward,  Michael J. Moore,  Michael L. Peterson,  John G. Riley, 
  • Pages: 326-340
  • First Published: 21 April 2008
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Quantification and genetic profiling of DNA isolated from free-floating feces of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)

R. M. Gillett,  B. N. White,  R. M. Rolland, 
  • Pages: 341-355
  • First Published: 21 April 2008
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Spatial-temporal patterns in intra-annual gray whale foraging: Characterizing interactions between predators and prey in Clayquot Sound, British Columbia, Canada

T. A. Nelson,  D. A. Duffus,  C. Robertson,  L. J. Feyrer, 
  • Pages: 356-370
  • First Published: 21 April 2008
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Fine-scale study finds limited evidence of kin clustering in a gray seal colony

Veronica F. Poland,  Patrick P. Pomeroy,  Sean D. Twiss,  Jeff A. Graves, 
  • Pages: 371-387
  • First Published: 21 April 2008

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Presumed hyperglycemic cataracts in a live-stranded minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) calf

Craig A. Harms,  Gretchen N. Lovewell,  David S. Rotstein, 
  • Pages: 388-397
  • First Published: 27 December 2007
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Distinctive osteology of distal flipper bones of tropical bottlenose whales, Indopacetus pacificus, from Taiwan: Mother and calf, calf with polydactyly

Alastair Watson,  Tzong-Fu Kuo,  Wei-Cheng Yang,  Chiuo-Ju Yao,  Lien-Siang Chou, 
  • Pages: 398-410
  • First Published: 27 December 2007
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False sex-linked microsatellite primer for Phoca vitulina

Jason K. Herreman,  Gail M. Blundell,  Merav Ben-David, 
  • Pages: 411-413
  • First Published: 21 April 2008

LETTERS

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Mammal-eating killer whales, industrial whaling, and the sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: A reply to critics of Springer et al. 2003

A. M. Springer,  J. A. Estes,  G. B. Van Vliet,  T. M. Williams,  D. F. Doak,  E. M. Danner,  B. Pfister, 
  • Pages: 414-442
  • First Published: 21 April 2008