Research on dolphins

Clarendon Press

1986

xiv, 478 p.

Includes bibliographies and index.

978-0198576068

Contents The epidermis of odontocetes: a view from within / J.R. Geraci, D.J. St. Aubin, and B.D. Hicks -- Characteristics of the skin of Neophocaena phocaenoides from the Changjiang (Yangtse River), China / Liu Renjun, R.J. Harrison, and K.W. Thurley -- Diving dolphins / S.H. Ridgway and R.J. Harrison -- Dolphin brain size / S.H. Ridgway -- Evolutionary aspects of cortical organization in the dolphin brain / P.J. Morgane, M.S. Jacobs, and A. Galaburda -- Ultrastructure of encapsulated mechanoreceptor organs in the region of the nares / M.M. Bryden and G.S. Molyneux -- Bronchial morphometry of the upper conductive zones of four odontocete cetaceans / C.M. Drabek and G.L. Kooyman -- Kidney and water metabolism / D.E. Gaskin -- Gonads and reproduction / M.M. Bryden and R.J. Harrison -- From the ocean to the pool / W.H. Dudok van Heel. Husbandry and training of captive dolphins / R.S. Abel -- Water management / V.J.A. Manton -- Age and growth / M.M. Bryden -- Observations on small cetaceans in the north-east Atlantic Ocean / D.A. McBrearty, M.A. Message, and G.A. King -- Line transect sampling of dolphin populations / P.S. Hammond -- Cephalopods in the diet of odontocetes / M.R. Clarke -- Pathology of small cetaceans stranded along southern California beaches / D.F. Cowan, W.A. Walker, and R.L. Brownell, Jr. -- The acoustic faculty of dolphins/ R.J. Morris -- The cetacean magnetic sense--evidence from strandings / M. Klinowska -- The behaviour of Lipotes vexillifer and Neophocaena phocaenoides in the Changjiang River and in captivity in China / Liu Renjun, M. Klinowska, and R.J. Harrison -- Geographical variation and biology of the Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens, in the north-eastern Pacific / W.A. Walker [and others].

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