VOLUME 18, NO. 1 JANUARY 2002
Maximum swim speeds of captive and free-ranging delphinids: Critical
analysis
of extraordinary performance.
Rohr, J. J., F. E. Fish and J. W. Gilpatrick, Jr .................................................................1
Molecular systematics of river dolphins inferred from complete mitochondria
cytochrome-b gene sequences.
Yang, G., K. Zhou, W. Ren, G. Ji, S. Liu, R. Bastida and L. Rivero...............................20
A resident population of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops
aduncus) in
Amakusa, Western Kyushu, Japan.
Shirakihara, M., K. J. Shirakihara, J. Tomonaga and M. Takasuki....................................30
How do sperm whales catch squid?
Fristrup, K. M. and G. R. Harbison ...............................................................................42
Sperm whale dives tracked by radio tag telemetry.
Watkins, W. A., M. A. Daher, N A. DiMarzio, A. Samuels, D. Wartzok,
K. M. Fristrup, P. W. Howey and R. R. Maiefski...........................................................55
Click characteristics of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus).
Hooker, S K. and H. Whitehead ...................................................................................69
Estimated source levels of fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
vocalizations:
Adjustments for surface interference.
Charif, R. A., D. K. Mellinger, K. J. Dunsmore, K. M. Frisrup and C.
W. Clark..........81
Distribution of pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, in the
Australasian region.
Kemper, C. M. ..............................................................................................................99
Determination of pregnancy status from blubber samples in minke whales
(Balaenoptera acutorostrata).
Mansour, A. A. H., D. W. McKay, J. Lien, J. C. Orr, J. H. Banoub, N.
Øien
and G. Stenson ..............................................................................................................112
Gray whale calf production 1994-2000: Are observed fluctuations related
to
changes in seasonal ice cover?
Perryman, W. L., M. A. Donahue, P. C. Perkins and S. B. Reilly .................................121
Estimation of age-specific probabilities of first return and annual
survival rates
for the male gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) on Sable Island
from capture-recapture
data.
Manske, M., W. T. Stobo and C. J. Schwarz .................................................................145
Assessment of Argos location accuracy from satellite tags deployed on
captive
gray seals.
Vincent, C., B. J. McConnell, V. Ridoux and M. A. Fedak ...........................................156
Haul-out activity of ringed seals (Phoca hispida) determined
from satellite
telemetry.
Born, E. W., J. Teilmann and F. Riget ..........................................................................167
Diet-tissue fractionation of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in
phocid seals.
Lesage, V., M. O. Hammill and K. M. Kovacs ..............................................................182
Haul-out selection by Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii):
Isolation and perceived predation risk.
Nordstrom, C. A. ...........................................................................................................194
Geographic variation in skull morphology of adult Steller sea lions
(Eumetopias jubatus).
Brunner, S. ....................................................................................................................206
Investigating the biases in the use of hard prey remains to identify
diet composition
using Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in captive
trials.
Staniland, I. J. ................................................................................................................223
Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi) foraging in deep-water
coral beds.
Parrish, F. A., K. Abernathy, G. J. Marshall and B. M. Buhleier ..................................244
Trends in manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) counts and
habitat use in
Tampa Bay, 1987-1994: Implications for conservation.
Wright, I. E., J. E. Reynolds III, B. B. Ackerman, L. I. Ward, B. Weigle
and W. A. Szelistowski .................................................................................................259
Visual pigment sensitivity in three deep diving marine mammals.
Southall, K. D., G. W. Oliver, J. W. Lewis, B. J. Le Boeuf, D. H. Levenson
and B. L. Southall ..........................................................................................................275
Long range movements of blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) between
the
Gulf of St. Lawrence and West Greenland.
Sears, R. and F. Larsen .................................................................................................281
Vocal activity of fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus, in the Ligurian
Sea.
Clark, C. W., J. F. Borsani and G. Norarbartolo-di-Sciara ..........................................286
Gray whale products sold in commercial markets along the Pacific coast
of Japan.
Baker, C. S., M. L. Dalebout, G. M. Lento and N. Funahashi .......................................295
BOOKS - Reviews .......................................................................................................301
ERRATA .....................................................................................................................303
MEMORIES - George Colin Lawder Bertram .............................................................304
GUIDE FOR AUTHORS ..............................................................................................304
Aircraft sound and disturbance to bowhead and beluga whales during spring
migration in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea.
Patenaude, N. J., W. J. Richardson, M. A. Smultea, W. R. Koski,
G. W. Miller, B. Würsig and C. R. Greene, Jr. .............................................................309
Population genetic structure of finless porpoises, Neophocoena phocaenoides,
in Chinese waters, inferred from mitochondrial control region sequences.
Yang, G., W. Ren, K. Zhou, S. Liu, G. Ji, J. Yan and L. Wang.......................................336
Growth of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the Indian
River
Lagoon system, Florida, U.S.A.
Stolen, M. K., D. K. Odell and N. B. Barros.................................................................348
Primary production required to support bottlenose dolphins in a salt
marsh
estuarine creek system.
Young, R. F. and H. D. Phillips ....................................................................................358
Geographic variation in rates of vocal production of free-ranging bottlenose
dolphins.
Jones, G. J. and L. S. Sayigh .........................................................................................374
Underwater noise of whale-watching boats and potential effects on killer
whales
(Orcinus orca), based on an acoustic impact model.
Erbe, C. ........................................................................................................................394
Diet of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) in Clayoquot Sound,
British
Columbia, Canada.
Dunham, J. S. and D. A. Duffus ....................................................................................419
Summer home range and habitat selection of harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)
pups.
Bjørge, A., T. Bekkby and E. B. Bryant ........................................................................438
Behavioral evidence of thermal stress from overheating in UK breeding
gray seals.
Twiss, S. D,, N. C. Wright, N. Dunstone, P. Redman, S. Moss and P.
P. Pomeroy .......455
Growth rates of Antarctic fur seals as indices of environmental conditions.
Reid, K. .........................................................................................................................469
Use of midazolam/pethidine and tiletamine/zolazepam combinations for
the
chemical restraint of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx).
Higgins, D. P., T. L. Rogers, A. D. Irvine and S. A. Hall-Aspland ...............................483
Effects of research handling on the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
Baker, J. D. and T. C. Johanos .......................................................................................500
Cost of transport in Steller sea lions, Eumetopias jubatus.
Rosen, D. A. S. and A. W. Trites ...................................................................................513
Classifying prey hard part structures recovered from fecal remains of
captive
Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus).
Cottrell, P. E. and A. W. Trites ......................................................................................525
Histology of the ovaries of a bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops aduncus,
of known
reproductive history.
Brook, F. M., R. Kinoshita and K. Benirschke ...............................................................540
Genetic identification and biological observation of two free-swimming
beaked
whales: Hector's beaked whale (Mesoplodon hectori, Gray, 1871,
and Gray's
beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi, von Haast, 1876).
Gales, N. J., M. L. Dalebout and J. L. Bannister ............................................................544
Occurrences of Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi)
on the Washington
coast over the past 500 years.
Etnier, M. A. ..................................................................................................................551
Power analysis of population trends: An application to elephant seals
of the
Falklands.
Galimberti, F. ................................................................................................................557
BOOKS - Reviews ........................................................................................................567
LETTERS ......................................................................................................................572
A new species of beaked whale
Mesoplodon
perrini sp. n. (Cetacea: Ziphiidae)
discovered through phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Merel L. Dalebout, James G. Mead, C. Scott Baker, Alan N. Baker and
Anton
L. van Helden..............................................................................................................
577
Resurrection of Mesoplodon
traversii (Gray, 1874), senior synonym of M. bahamondi
Reyes, Van Waerebeek, Cárdenas and Yáñez, 1995
(Cetacea; Ziphidae).
Anton L. van Helden, Alan N. Baker, Merel L. Dalebout, Julio C. Reyes,
Koen
Van Waerebeek and C. Scott Baker..............................................................................
609
Three mass strandings of sperm
whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in southern
Australian waters.
Karen Evans, Margaret Morrice, Mark Hindell and Deborah Thiele............................
622
ATOC and other factors affecting
the distribution and abundance of hump-
back whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off the north shore of
Kauai.
Adam S. Frankel and Christopher W. Clark.................................................................
644
Diets of fin, sei, and sperm
whales in British Columbia: An analysis of commercial
whaling records, 1963-1967.
Rowenna D. Flinn, Andrew W. Trites, Edward J. Gregr and R. Ian Perry.................... 663
Monitoring the prey-field
of marine predators: Combining digital imaging
with datalogging tags.
Sascha K. Hooker, Ian L. Boyd, Mark Jessopp, Oliver Cox, John Blackwell,
Peter L.
Boveng and John L. Bengtson........................................................................................
680
A method for calculating the
effect of a die-off from stranding data.
Tomoharu Eguchi..........................................................................................................
698
Estimating struck and loss
rates for harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus)
in the Northwest Atlantic.
B. Sjare and G. B. Stenson............................................................................................
710
Growth and development in free-ranging
harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) pups
from southern British Columbia, Canada.
Paul E. Cottrell, Steven Jeffries, Brian Beck and Peter S. Ross...................................
721
Diet of South American fur
seals (Arctocephalus australis) in Isla de Lobos, Uruguay.
Daniel E. Naya, Matias Arim and Rodrigo Vargas.......................................................
734
Dispersal, rookery fidelity,
and metapopulation structure of Steller sea lions
(Eumetopias jubatus) in an increasing and a decreasing population
in Alaska.
Kimberly L. Raum-Suryan, Kenneth W. Pitcher, Donald G. Calkins, John
L.
Sease and Thomas R. Loughlin.....................................................................................
746
Skin density and its influence
on buoyancy in the manatee (Trichechus manatus
latirostris), harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), and
bottlenose dolphin
(Tursiops truncatus).
E. K. Kipps, W. A. McLellan, S. A. Rommel and D. A. Pabst...................................... 765
NOTES
Killer whale (Orcinus orca) distribution and abundance in the
central and
southeastern Bering Sea, July 1999 and June 2000.
Janice M. Waite, Nancy A. Friday and Sue E. Moore...................................................
779
The taxonomic status of the nominal dolphin species Delphinus tropicalis
van Bree, 1971.
Thomas A. Jefferson and Koen Van Waerebeek..............................................................787
Interactions between the Indian River Lagoon blue crab fishery and the
bottlenose
dolphin, Tursiops truncatus.
Wendy D. Noke and Daniel K. Odell.................................................................................819
Reducing incidental mortality of Franciscana dolphin Pontoporia blainvillei
with
acoustic warning devices attached to fishing nets.
P. Bordino, S. Kraus, D. Albareda, A. Fazio, A. Palmerio, M. Mendez
and S. Botta............833
Effect of the sound generated by an acoustic harassment device on the
relative
abundance and distribution of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
in
Retreat Passage, British Columbia.
Peter F. Olesiuk, Linda M. Nichol, Margaret J. Sowden and John K. B.
Ford.....................843
A biopsy system for small cetaceans: Darting success and wound
healing in
Tursiops spp.
Michael Krützen, Lynne M. Barré, Luciana M. Möller,
Michael R. Heithaus, Colleen
Simms and William B. Sherwin.........................................................................................863
Residence patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
in the Stono River
estuary, Charleston County, South Carolina, U.S.A.
Eric Samuel Zolman..........................................................................................................879
Interactions between cetaceans and the tuna fishery in the Azores.
Mónica A. Silva, R. Feio, R. Prieto, J. M. Gonçalves
and R. S. Santos..................................893
Diets of Baird's beaked whales, Berardius bairdii, in the southern
Sea of Okhotsk
and off the Pacific coast of Honshu, Japan.
William A. Walker, James G. Mead and Robert L. Brownell, Jr...........................................902
Spatiotemporal prediction models of cetacean habitats in the mid-western
North Atlantic Ocean (from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, U.S.A. to
Nova
Scotia, Canada).
Toshihide Hamazaki...........................................................................................................920
An algorithm to improve geolocation positions using sea surface temperature
and diving depth.
C. A. Beck, J. I. McMillan and W. D. Bowen......................................................................940
Thermal function of phocid seal fur.
P. H. Kvadsheim and J. J. Aarseth......................................................................................952
Dispersal and bycatch mortality in gray, Halichoerus grypus,
and harbor, Phoca
vitulina, seals tagged at the Norwegian coast.
Arne Bjørge, Nils Øien, Siri Hartvedt, Gjermund Bøthun
and Trine Bekkby............................963
Length-mass and total body length of adult female sea otters in Prince
William
Sound before and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Lisa Mignon Rotterman and Charles Monnett........................................................................977
NOTES
Seals, sequences, and signal detection.
Marla M. Holt and Ronald J. Schusterman.............................................................................994
BOOKS
Reviews.............................................................................................................................999
INDEX...............................................................................................................................1004