MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

VOLUME 20, NO. 1,  JANUARY 2004


Variability in the diet of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in Scottish waters 1992-2003.
M.B. Santos, G.J. Pierce, J.A. Learmonth, R.J. Reid, H.M. Ross, I.A.P. Patterson, 
D.G. Reid and D. Beare .............................................................................................................................1

Population structure in an inshore cetacean revealed by microsatellite and mtDNA analysis:
Bottlenose dolphins (Turisops sp.) in Shark Bay, Western Australia.
Michael Krützen, William B. Sherwin, Per Berggren and Nick Gales .......................................................28

Seasonal occurrence of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) sounds in the Gulf of Alaska,
1999-2001.
David K. Mellinger, Kathleen M. Stafford and Christopher G. Fox .........................................................48

Abundance of blue and humpback whales in the eastern North Pacific estimated by capture-
recapture and line-transect methods.
John Calambokidis and Jay Barlow ...........................................................................................................63

Pinniped lactation strategies:  Evaluation of data on maternal and offspring life history
traits.
Tyler M. Schulz and W. Don Bowen ........................................................................................................86

A prehistoric breeding population of harp seals (Phoca groenlandia) in the Baltic Sea.
Jan Storå and Per G. P. Ericson ..............................................................................................................115

Feeding ecology of the marine otter (Lutra felina) in a rocky seashore of the south
of Chile
Gonzalo Medina-Vogel, Claudio Delgado Rodriguez, Ricardo E. Alvarea P. and
José Luis Bartheld V. ..............................................................................................................................134

NOTES

Behavioral responses of Sotalia fluviatilis (Cetacea, Delphinidae) to acoustic pingers,
Fortaleza, Brazil.
Cassiano Monteiro-Neto, Francisco José C. Ávila, Taricísio T. Alves-Jr., Douglas Silva Araújo,
Alberto Alves Campos, Aline Maria A. Martins, Cristiano Leite Parente,
Manuel A. Andrade Furtado-Neto and Jon Lien .....................................................................................145

Composition of a school of Risso's dolphins, Grampus griseus.
Masao Amano and Nobuyuki Miyasaki ..................................................................................................152

Two-way trans-Atlantic migration of a North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis).
Karl-Otto Jacobsen, Marilyn Marx and Nils Øien ..................................................................................161

Pleistocene or post-Pleistocene manatees in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys.
Michael E. Willliams and Daryl P. Domning ..........................................................................................167

Could lower body fat mass contribute to cold-water susceptibility in calves of the
West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)?
Rudy M. Ortiz and Graham A.J. Worthy ................................................................................................176

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS....................................................................................................................184


VOLUME 20, NO. 2, APRIL  2004


Riverine habitat preferences of botos (Inia geoffrensis) and tucusix (Sotalia fluviatilis)
in the central Amazon.
A.R. Marint, V.M.F. da Silva and D.L. Salmon ......................................................................................189

Geographic genetic structure in the franciscana dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei).
Marila Lázaro, Enrique P. Lessa and Healy Hamilton ............................................................................201

Dusky dolphon (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) foraging in two different habitats:
Active acoustic detection of dolphins and their prey.
Kelly J. Benoit-Bird , Benrd Würsig and Cynthia J. McFadden ...............................................................215

Age and length at weaning and development of diet of pantropical spotted dolphins,
Stenella attenuata, from the eastern tropical Pacific.
Frederic I. Archer and Kelly M. Robertson ..............................................................................................232

Aeiral digital phtographic surveys of narwhals, Monodon monocerus, in Northwest
Greenland.
Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen ...................................................................................................................246

Major Histocompatibility Complex I polymorphism in a cetacean:  They gray
whale (Eschrichtius robustus).
Sergio Flores-Ramirez, Robert D. Miller and Jorge Urban-Ramirez ........................................................262

Phoning home--a new GSM mobile phone telemetry system to collect mark-
recapture data.
Bernie McConnell, Rory Beaton, Ed Bryant, Colin Hunter, Phil Lovell and Aisla Hall ..........................274

Determining blubber fatty acid composition: A comparison of in situ direct
and traditional methods.
Gregory W. Thiemann, Suzanne M. Budge and Sara J. Iverson ..............................................................284

Growth rate and shedding of vibrissae in the gray seal, Halichoerus grypus: 
A cautionary note for stable isotope diet analysis. 
Danielle K. Greaves, Michael O. Hammill, Jim D. Eddington, Darcy Pettipas and
Jason F. Schreer ......................................................................................................................................296

Foraging depths of sea otters and implications to coastal marine communities.
James L. Bodkin, George G. Esslinger and Daniel H. Monson ..............................................................305

    NOTES

Co-variation in the probablilites of sighting harbor porpoises and bottlenose dolphins.
Paul Thoompson, Sam White and Eille Dickon .....................................................................................322

Pygmy fin whales.
Robert Clarke .........................................................................................................................................329

Gray whales with loss of flukes adapt and survive.
J. Urbán R., V. Flores de Sahagún, M.L. Jones, S.L. Swartz, B. Mate, A. Gömez-Gallardo and
M. Guerrero-Ruiz ...................................................................................................................................335

Temperature-viscosity relations of bowhead whale blood:  A possible mechanism
for maintaining cold blood flow.
Robert Elsner, Herbert J. Meiselman and Oguz K. Baskurt ...................................................................339

Effects of video camera attachment of the foraging behavior of immature Hawaiian
monk seals.
Charles L. Littnan, Jason D. Baker, Frank A. Parrish and Gregory J. Marshall .......................................345

LETTERS ............................................................................................................................................ 353
VOLUME 20, NO. 3, JULY  2004

A stage-based model of manatee population dynamics.
Michael C. Runge, Catherine A. Langtimm and William L. Kendall........................................................361

Determination of manatee population trends along the Atlantic coast of Florida
using a Bayesian approach with temperature-adjusted aerial survey data.
Bruce A. Craig and John E. Reynolds, III ...............................................................................................386

Methods for joint inference from multiple data sources for improved estimates
of population size and survival rates.
Daniel Goodman ....................................................................................................................................401

Capture-recapture analysis for estimating manatee reproductive rates.
William L. Kendall, Catherine A. Langtimm, Cathy A. Beck and Michael C. Runge ..............................424

Survival estimates for Florida manatees from the photo-identification of individuals.
Catherine A. Langtimm, Cathy A. Beck, Holly H. Edwards, Kristin J. Fick-Child,
Bruce B. Ackerman, Sheri L. Barton and Wayne C. Hartley ...................................................................438

The likelihood of sperm competition in manatees -- explaining an apparent paradox.
John E. Reynolds, III, Sentiel A. Rommel and Meghan E. Pitchford ......................................................464

Aerial surveys for coastal dolphins: Abundance of Hector's dolphins off the South Island
west coast, New Zealand.
Elisabeth Slooten, Stephen Michael Dawson and William Jacob Rayment .............................................477

Lateral mandibular wall thickness in Tursiops truncatus:  Variation due to sex and age.
Sirpa Nummela, Jason E. Kosove, Terry E. Lancaster and J. G. M. Thewissen .....................................491

High performance turning capabilities during foraging by bottlenose dolphins
(Tursiops truncatus).
Jennifer L. Maresh, Frank E. Fish, Doublas P. Nowacek, Stephanie M. Nowacek
and Randall S. Wells................................................................................................................................498

Demographic parameters of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)
around Mikura Island, Japan.
Kazunobu Kogi, Toru Hishii, Ayami Imamura, Takako Iwatani and Kathleen M. Dudzinski ...............510

Diets of coastal bottlenose dolphins from the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast differ by habitat.
Damon P. Gannon and Danielle M. Waples ...........................................................................................527

Vasomotor responses of isolated peripheral blood vessels from bowhead whales:
Thermoregulatory implications.
Robert Elsner, J. Craig George and Todd O'Hara ...................................................................................546

Cytochrome P450 1A1 expression in cetacean integument: Implications for detecting
contaminant exposure and effects.
Carolyn Miller Angell, Joanna Y. Wilson, Michael J. Moore and John J. Stegeman .................................554

Environmental factors influencing the distribution of southern right whales (Eubalanea
australis) on the south coast of South Africa I: Borad scale patterns.
Simon H. Elwen and Peter B. Best ..........................................................................................................567

Environmental factors influencing the distribution of southern right whales (Eubalanea
australis) on the south coast of South Africa II: Within bay distribution.
Simon H. Elwen and Peter B. Best ..........................................................................................................583

Shipboard line transect surveys of crabeater seal abundance in the pack-ice off east
Antarctica: Evaluation of assumptions.
Colin Southwell, Bill de la Mare, DAvid Borchers and Louise Burt .........................................................602

Retrospective isotopic anallyses of Steller sea lion tooth annuli and seabird feathers:
A corss-taxa approach to investigating regime and dietary shifts in the Gulf of Alaska.
Keith A. Hobson, Elizabeth H. Sinclair, Anne E. York, James R. Thomason and
Richard E. Merrick ...................................................................................................................................621

Aquatic mating strategies of the male Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardii):  Are
males defending the hotspot?
Sean A. Hayes, Daniel P. Costa, James T. Harvey and Burney J. Le Boeuf .............................................639

NOTES

Genetic identification of an individual humpback whale between the eastern Caribbean
and the Norwegian Sea.
Martine Bérubé, Mary Beth Rew, Tim Cole, Steven L. Swartz, Eric Zolman, Nils Øien and
Per J. Palsbøll ..........................................................................................................................................657

LETTERS ..............................................................................................................................................664

VOLUME 20, NO. 4, OCTOBER  2004

Temporary threshold shifts after noise exposure in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops
truncatus) measured using evoked auditory potentials.
Paul E. Nachtigall, Alexander Ya Supin, Jeffrey Pawloski and Whitlow W. L. Au. ................................673

The social structure of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in the Bahamas.
Cindy A. Rogers, Barbara J. Brunnick, Denise L. Herzing and John D. Baldwin ....................................688

Effects of watercraft noise on the acoustic behavior of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops
truncatus, in Sarasota Bay, Florida.
Kara C. Buckstaff ...................................................................................................................................709

Evidence for increases in Antarctic blue whales based on Bayesian modeling.
Trevor A. Branch, Koji Matsuoka and Tomio Miyashita .......................................................................726

Abundance and population trend (1978 - 2001) of western Arctic bowhead whales
surveyed near Barrow, Alaska.
J. C. "Craig" George, J. Zeh, R. Suydam and C. Clark ............................................................................755

Historical observations of humpback and blue whales in the North Atlantic Ocean:
Clues to migratory routes and possibly additional feeding grounds.
Randall R. Reeves, Tim D. Smith, Elizabeth A. Josephson, Phillip J. Clapham and
Gillian Woolmer .....................................................................................................................................774

Abundance of cetaceans in the oceanic northern Gulf of Mexico, 1996 - 2001.
Keith D. Mullin and Gregory L. Fulling .................................................................................................787

Buffering capacity of the locomotor muscle in cetaceans: Corelates with postpartum
development, dive duration, and swim performance.
Shawn R. Noren .....................................................................................................................................808

Development of dispersal, movement patterns, and haul-out use by pup and juvenile
Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatu) in Alaska.
Kimberly L. Raum-Suryan, Michael J. Rehberg, Grey W. Pendleton, Kenneth W. Pitcher
and Thomas S. Gelatt .............................................................................................................................823

Morphometry, hematology, and serum chemistry in the Hawaiian monk seal
(Monachus schauinslandi).
John S. Reif, Annette Bachand, A. Alonso Aguirre, Dori L. Jorjesson, Lizabeth Kashinsky,
Robert Braun and George Antonelis........................................................................................................851

Changes in heart rate variability during diving in young harbor seals, Phoca vitulina.
Danielle K. Greaves, Richard L. Hughson, Zbigniew Topor, Jason F. Schreer, Jennifer M. Burns
and Michael O. Hammill ........................................................................................................................861

NOTES

Detection of North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) calls in the Gulf of Alaska.
David K. Mellinger, Kathleen M. Stafford, Sue E. Moore, Lisa Munger and Christopher G. Fox ..........872

Increasing the precision of theodolite tracking: Modified technique to calculate the
altitude of land-based observation sites.
H. Bailey and D. Lusseau .......................................................................................................................880

Non-metrical digital photo-identification system for the Hawaiian monk seal.
Albert Harting, Jason Baker and Brenda Becker ....................................................................................886

BOOKS..................................................................................................................................................896

LETTER................................................................................................................................................898

ERRATUM............................................................................................................................................899

INDEX...................................................................................................................................................900