Diel variation in echolocation
behavior of wild harbor porpoises.
Julia Carlström
....................................................................................................................1
Spotted dolphin evasive response in
relation to fishing effort.
Cleridy E. Lennert-Cody and Michael D. Scott
..............................................................13
Bubblestream whistles are not
representative of a bottlenose dolphin's
vocal repertoire.
Deborah Fripp
..................................................................................................................29
Winter feeding intensity of narwhals (Monodon monoceros).
K.L. Laidre and M. P. Heide-Jørgensen
............................................................................45
Genetic diversity in the matrilineal
whales: Models of cultural hitchhiking
and group-specific non-heritable demographic variation.
Hal Whitehead
..................................................................................................................58
Multisite mark-recapture for
cetaceans: Population estimates with Bayesian
model averaging.
J.W. Durban, D. A. Elston, D. K. Ellifrit, E. Dickson, P. S. Hammond and
P. M. Thompson
...............................................................................................................80
Foraging of juvenile monk seals at
French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii.
Frank A. Parrish, Gregory J. Marshall, Charles L. Littnan, Mike
Heithaus,
Suzanne Canja, Brenda Becker, Robert Braun and George A. Antonelis
.................... 93
Observer variability in pinniped
counts: Ground-based enumeration of
walruses at haul-out sites.
M. S. Udevitz, C. V. Jay and M. B. Cody
.......................................................................108
Climate change and ringed seal (Phoca hispida) recruitment in
western Hudson Bay.
Steven H. Ferguson, Ian Stirling and Philip McLoughlin
..............................................121
NOTES
Movements and dive habits of a
satellite-monitored longfinned pilot whale
(Globicephala melas) in the
Northwest Atlantic.
Bruce R. Mate, Barbara A. Lagerquist, Martha Winsor, Joseph Gerace and
John H. Prescott
.............................................................................................................136
Lunar cycles and sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) strandings
on
the North Atlantic coastlines of the British Isles and Eastern Canada.
Andrew J. Wright
............................................................................................................145
Vocalizations of a female humpback
whale in Arraial do Cabo (RJ, Brazil).
Sheila M. Simão and Sergio C. Moreira
..........................................................................150
Implantation of subcutaneous radio
transmitters in the harbor seal
(Phoca vitulina).
Michelle E. Lander, Martin Haulena, Frances M. D. Gulland and James T.
Harvey ..154
Postpartum dynamics of reproductive
hormones in gray and hooded seals.
J. E. Mellish and S. J. Iverson
.........................................................................................
162
Continuing sea otter population
declines in the Aleutian archipelago.
J. A. Estes, M. T. Tinker, A. M. Doroff and Douglas M. Burn
....................................169
BOOKS ..........................................................................................................................
173
LETTERS.......................................................................................................................
175
NEWS
.............................................................................................................................
177
OPINION
......................................................................................................................
178
GUIDE FOR AUTHORS .............................................................................................184
VOLUME 21, No. 2,
APRIL 2005
Differences between fishery-dependent
and fishery-independent
estimates of single- and mixed-species dolphin schools:
Implications
for single-species stock assessments.
Eric J. Ward
......................................................................................................................189
Capture-recapture estimates of
Hector's dolphin abundance at Banks
Peninsula, New Zealand.
Andrew M. Gormley, Stephen M. Dawson, Elisabeth Slooten and Stefan
Bräger .......204
Effects of an offshore oil development
on local abundance and distribution
of ringed seals (Phoca hispida)
of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea.
Valerie D. Moulton, W. John Richardson, Robert E. Elliott, Trent L.
McDonald,
Chris Nations and Michael T. Williams
..........................................................................217
Multivariate regression of
satellite-linked dive recorder data: Simultaneous
analysis of all bins.
M. A. Simplins, K. L. Laidre and P. J. Heagerty
..............................................................243
Pup production and populations trends
of the Australian fur seal
(Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus).
Roger Kirkwood, Rosemary Gales, Aleks Terauds, John P. Y. Arnould,
David Pemberton, Peter D. Shaughnessy, Anthony T. Mitchell and John
Gibbens ...260
Diving behavior of the Pacific Harbor
seal (Phoca vitulina richardii)
in
Monterey Bay, California.
Tomoharu Eguchi and James T. Harvey
........................................................................283
Feeding method affects otolith
digestion in captive gray seals: Implications
for diet composition and estimation.
K. Grellier and P. S. Hammond
......................................................................................
296
NOTES
Coda playbacks to sperm whales in Chilean waters.
Luke Rendell and Hal Whitehead
...................................................................................307
Do breeding male sperm whales show
preferences among vocal clans
of females?
Luke Rendell, Hal Whitehead and Amanda Coakes
......................................................317
Photographic identification of fin
whales (Balaenoptera physalus)
off the
Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Amanda Coakes, Shannon Gowans, Peter Simard, Janie Giard, Courtney
Vashro
and Richard Sears
..............................................................................................................323
Environmental correlates of cetacean
mass stranding sites in Florida.
Rebekah J. Walker, Edward O. Keith, Alexander E. Yankovsy and Daniel K.
Odell ..237
Mobbing of a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) by adult
male
Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus
pusillus doriferus).
Roger Kirkwood and John Dickie
.....................................................................................336
Maternal attendance and diving
behavior of a lactating Mediterranean
monk seal.
Manel Gazo and Alex Aguilar
...........................................................................................340
Comparison of between-tooth age
estimates of Atlantic walrus
(Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus).
Robert E. A. Steward and Barbara E. Stewart
.................................................................346
Holocene record of the dugong (Dungong dugon) from Victoria,
Southeast
Australia.
Erich M. G. Fitzgerald
.......................................................................................................355
BOOKS ............................................................................................................................362
VOLUME 21, No. 3,
JULY 2005
Description of a new dolphin, the
Australian snubfin dolphin, Orcaella
heinsohni sp. n. (Cetacea,
Delphinidae).
Isabel Beasley, Kelly M. Robertson and Peter Arnold
....................................................365
Bilateral directional asymmetry of the
appendicular skeleton of the harbor
porpoise (Phocoena phocoena).
Anders Galatius
.................................................................................................................401
Vertebral osteology and complexity in Lagenorhynchus acutus (Delphinidae)
with comparison to other delphinoid genera.
Emily A. Buchholtz, Elizabeth M. Wolkovich and Richard J. Cleary
...........................411
Estimates of sperm whale abundance in
the northeastern temperate Pacific
from a combined acoustic and visual survey.
Jay Barlow and Barbara L. Taylor
...................................................................................429
Patterns of sound production in diving
sperm whales in the northwestern
Mediterranean.
Valeria Teloni
....................................................................................................................446
The gunshot sound produced by male
North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena
glacialis) and its potential function in reproductive
advertisement.
Susan E. Parks, Philip K. Hamilton, Scott D. Kraus and Peter L. Tyack
......................458
A critical review of the regime
shift--"junk food"--nutritional stress hypothesis
for the decline of the western stock of Steller sea lion.
Lowell W. Fritz and Sarah Hinckley
................................................................................476
Changes in abundance of harbor seals
in Maine, 1981-2001.
James R. Gilbert, Gordon T. Waring, Kate M. Wynne and Nikolina Guldager
............519
Dugong (Dugong dugon) abundance along the
Adaman coast of Thailand.
Ellen M. Hines, Kanjana Adulyanukosol and David A. Duffus
.....................................536
NOTES
Killer whale predation in coastal waters of the Chukotka Peninsula.
V.V. Melnikov and I.A. Zagrebin
.....................................................................................550
Songs indicate interaction between
humpback whale (Megaptera
novaeangliae) populations in the western and eastern South
Atlantic Ocean.
James D. Darling and Renata S. Sousa-Lima
.....................................................................557
Effects of squid beak size on the
route of egestion in northern fur seals
(Calorhinus ursinus):
Results from captive feeding trials.
Shiroh Yonezaki, Masashi Kiyota, Takashi Koido and Akira Takemura
......................567
The "seal prick": A low invasive
method for blood sampling in male
elephant seals.
Simona Sanvito, Filippo Galimberti, Roberto Sanvito and Chiara Braschi
...................574
BOOKS .............................................................................................................................582
VOLUME 21, No. 4,
OCTOBER, 2005
Acoustic ecology of foraging
bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops
truncatus),
habitat-specific use of three sound types.
Douglas P. Nowacek
.......................................................................................................587
Killer whale attacks on minke
whales: Prey capture and antipredator tactics.
John K. B. Ford, Graeme
M. Ellis, Dena R. Matkin, Kenneth C. Balcomb,
David Briggs and Alexandra B. Morton
...........................................................................603
Genetic variation of Kogia spp. with preliminary
evidence for two species of
Kogia sima.
S.J. Chivers, R. G. Leduc, K. M. Robertson, N. B. Barros and A.
E. Dizon .................619
Fishing gear involved in entaglements
of right and humpback whales.
Amanda Johnson, Glenn Salvador, John Kenney, Jooke Robbins,
Scott Kraus,
Scott Landry and Phil Clapham
.......................................................................................635
How a harbor seal sees the night sky.
Björn Mauck, Daniel Brown, Wolfhard Schlosser, Frank
Schaeffel
and Guido Dehnhardt
......................................................................................................646
Trends in abundance and current status
of harbor seals in Oregon: 1977-2003.
Robin F. Brown, Bryan E. Wright, Susan D. Riemer and Jeffrey
Laake ......................657
Differential movements by harbor seal
pups in contrasting
Alaska environments.
Robert J. Small, Lloyd F. Lowry, Jay M. Ver Hoef, Kathryn J.
Frost,
Robert A. DeLong and Michael J. Rehberg
....................................................................671
Colonization history of the Baltic
harbor seals: Integrating archaeological,
behavioral, and genetic data.
Tero Härkönen, Karin C. Harding, Simon J. Goodman and
Kerstin Johannesson.....695
Effective, field-based inhalation
anesthesia for ice seals.
Nicholas Gales, Julie Barnes, Beth Chittick, Millie Gray, Sarah
Robinson,
Jennifer Burns and Daniel Costa
.....................................................................................717
Projecting the trend of Steller sea
lion populations in western Alaska.
L. L. Eberhardt, J. L. Sease and D. P. DeMaster
.............................................................728
Influence of power plants and other
warm-water refuges on Florida manatees.
David W. Laist and John E. Reynolds, III
.......................................................................739
NOTES
Length-weight relationships in the
spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
William F. Perrin, Ma. Louella L. Dolar, Cynthia M. Chan
and Susan J. Chivers .......765
LETTERS .........................................................................................................................779
IN MEMORIAM .............................................................................................................784
INDEX
..............................................................................................................................789