Dolphins live in complex social groupings with a wide variety of social strategies. In this
chapter we investigate the role that differing habitats and ecological conditions have played …

Bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus are amongst the best-known cetaceans. In the
Mediterranean Sea, however, modern field studies of cetaceans did not start until the late …

Patterns of association among bottlenose dolphins resident in Shark Bay, Western Australia
were analyzed using party membership data. Parties contained an average of 4.8 …

G reetings. This publication represents over three years of work by dozens of people around
the world, many of whom-like you-are MPA managers or practitioners of marine …

Stomach contents of a resident community of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from
the Sarasota Bay area of the westcentral coast of Florida were studied to examine potential …

The existence of nearshore and offshore populations of the bottlenose dolphin has been
documented throughout its range. In several cases the two regional forms have been shown …

Integrative taxonomy can help us to gain a better understanding of the degree of
evolutionary divergence between taxa. In the western North Atlantic (wNA), two ecotypes …

I studied behavior and range patterns of individual bottlenose dolphins during 1984 in the
mid‐eastern Gulf of California, Mexico. Dolphin sighting rate was significantly higher in …

We succinctly review and document new cases of diseases of the skin and the skeletal
system and external traumata in cetaceans from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina …

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) occupy a wide range of coastal and pelagic
habitats throughout tropical and temperate waters worldwide. In some regions,“inshore” and …