Managing the exploitation of Pacific walruses: A tragedy of delayed response
and poor communication.
FRANCIS H. FAY, BRENDAN P. KELLY AND JOHN L. SEASE .......................................1

Aerial census of Pacific walruses in the Chukchi Sea, 1985.
JAMES R. GILBERT ..............................................................................................................17

Bootstrap correction for diurnal activity cycle in census data for Antarctic seals.
ALBERT W. ERICKSON, LEWIS J. BLEDSOE AND M. BRADLEY HANSON ...............29

Genetic relatedness of two populations of the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina.
NICHOLAS J. GALES, MARK ADAMS AND HARRY R. BURTON ................................57

Crabeater seals Lobodon carcinophagus during the breeding season:
Observations on five groups near Enderby Land, Antarctica.
P. D. SHAUGHNESSY AND K. R. KERRY .........................................................................68

NOTES

Mass stranding of dugongs by a tropical cyclone in northern Australia.
HELEN E. MARSH ................................................................................................................78

New host record for the barnacle Cryptolepas rhachianecti Dall, 1872
(Balanomorpha: Coronulidae).
WILLIAM F. SAMARAS .......................................................................................................84

Manatee use of Spartina alterniflora in Cumberland Sound.
THOMAS M. BAUGH, JAMES A. VALADE AND BARBARA J. ZOODSMA ...................88

BOOKS

Reviews ...................................................................................................................................91

Approaches to Marine Mammal Energetics. A. C. Huntley, D. P. Costa,
G. A. J. Worthy and M. A. Castellini, eds. Society for Marine Mammalogy,
Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas.
Reviewed by Robert J. Hudson.

Design and Analysis Methods for Fish Survival Experiments Based on
Release-Recapture.
Kenneth P. Burnham, David R. Anderson, Gary C. White, Cavell Brownie
and Kenneth H. Pollock. American Fisheries Society Monograph No. 5.
Reviewed by Philip Hammond.

New Books .............................................................................................................................93

Other Recent Publications ........................................................................................................93

NEWS ....................................................................................................................................94

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS .......................................................................................................95

Glucose kinetics in neonatal elephant seals during postweaning aphagia.
EDWARD O. KEITH AND CHARLES L. ORTIZ .................................................................99

Ice-based census of bowhead whales migrating past Point Barrow, Alaska,1978-1983.
BRUCE KROGMAN, DAVID RUGH, RONALD SONNTAG,
JUDITH ZEH AND DAIJIN KO ..........................................................................................116

North Pacific humpback whale songs: a comparison of southeast Alaskan feeding ground
songs with Hawaiian wintering ground songs.
D. J. MCSWEENEY, K. C. CHU, W. F. DOLPHIN AND L. N. GUINEE .........................139

A description of common seals, Phoca vitulina L. 1758, from Svalbard.
OYSTEIN WIIG ...................................................................................................................149

Movements, home range, and territories of male sea otters off central California.
RONALD J . JAMESON ......................................................................................................159

The distribution, abundance and selected prey of the harbor seal, Phoca vitulina concolor,
in southern New England.
P. MICHAEL PAYNE AND LAWRENCE A. SELZER ......................................................173

NOTES

A porpoise, Australophocaena dioptrica, previously identified as Phocoena spinipinnis,
from Heard Island.
ROBERT L. BROWNELL, JR., JOHN E. HEYNING AND WILLIAM F. PERRIN ...........193

Calving seasonality of Dall's porpoise in the eastern North Pacific.
THOMAS A. JEFFERSON ..................................................................................................196

New record of the spectacle porpoise.
GUSTAVO PAGNONI AND SERGIO SABA ....................................................................201

The occurrence of manatees (Trichechus manatus) in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
MARCO A. LAZCANO-BARRERO AND JANE M. PACKARD .....................................202

BOOKS

Reviews ................................................................................................................................206

On the Northwest: Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest
1790-1967. Robert Lloyd Webb. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver.
Reviewed by Dale W. Rice.

The Sei Whale: Population Biology, Ecology and Management.
Joseph Horwood, UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food,
Directorate of Fisheries Research, Lowestoft. Croom Helm,
London, New York and Sydney.
Reviewed by David E. Gaskin.

Wildlife Radio Tagging, Equipment, Field Techniques and Data Analysis.
Robert Hayward. Academic Press, London.
Reviewed by Galen B. Rathbun.

New Books ...........................................................................................................................209

LETTERS

Scientific Correspondence .....................................................................................................210

MEMORIES

Didier Marechessaux .............................................................................................................211

NEWS ..................................................................................................................................212

A dwarf form of the spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) from Thailand.
WILLIAM F. PERRIN, NOBUYUKI MIYAZAKI AND TOSHIO KASUYA ...................213

Chemical restraint and anesthesia of pinnipeds: a review.
NICHOLAS J. GALES ........................................................................................................228

Movements of southern elephant seals and subantarctic fur seals in relation to Marion Island.
MARTHAN N. BESTER .....................................................................................................257

Sea otters and benthic prey communities in Washington State.
RIKK G. KVITEK, DAVID SHULL, DON CANESTRO,
EDWARD C. BOWLBY AND BARRY L. TROUTMAN ...................................................266

Haul-out patterns, site fidelity and activity budgets of male Hooker's
sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) on the New Zealand mainland.
MICHAEL P. BEENTJES ....................................................................................................281

NOTES

Colonization by northern elephant seals of the Point Reyes peninsula, California.
SARAH G. ALLEN, SUSAN C. PEASLEE AND HARRIET R. HUBER ............................298

First record of a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in Washington State.
RICHARD C. FERRERO AND LAWRENCE M. TSUNODA ...........................................302

A record of two humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, in the
Western Mediterranean Sea.
ALEX AGUILAR .................................................................................................................306

BOOKS

Reviews ................................................................................................................................310

Polar Bears. Ian Stirling, with photographs by Dan Guravich.
The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
Reviewed by Douglas P. DeMaster.

Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises. Consulting Editors Sir Richard
Harrison and Dr. M. M. Bryden. Facts On File Publications, New York.
Reviewed by Alan Baldridge.

New Books ...........................................................................................................................312

LETTERS

Scientific Correspondence ......................................................................................................313

NEWS ..................................................................................................................................314

Growth layers in teeth from known-age, free-ranging bottlenose dolphins.
ALETA A. HOHN, MICHAEL D. SCOTT, RANDALL S. WELLS,
JAY C. SWEENEY AND A. BLAlR IRVlNE .......................................................................315

Flippers and pinniped phylogeny: has the problem of convergence been overrated?
ANDR� R. WYSS ...............................................................................................................343

Harbor seal tracking and telemetry by satellite.
BRENT S. STEWART, STEPHEN LEATHERWOOD,
PAMELA K. YOCHEM AND MADS-PETER HEIDE-JORGENSEN ................................361

An intraperitoneal radio transmitter for sea otters.
KATHERINE RALLS, DONALD B. SINIFF,
THOMAS D. WILLIAMS AND V. B. KUECHLE ..............................................................376

NOTES

Observations of mating behavior in dugongs (Dugong dugon).
ANTHONY PREEN .............................................................................................................382

First record of the short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846,
for the southwestern Atlantic.
JOAO MARCOS MIRAGAIA SCHMIEGELOW
AND ALFREDO MARTINS PAIVA FILHO ......................................................................387

A case of adoption in the California sea otter.
MICHELLE M. STAEDLER AND MARIANNE L. RIEDMAN .........................................391

Notes on the diet of marine Sotalia fluviatilis.
MONICA BOROBIA AND NELIO B. BARROS ...............................................................395

Diving behavior and maternal investment in Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii).
J. W. TESTA, S. E. B. HILL AND D. B. SINIFF ................................................................399

BOOKS

Reviews ................................................................................................................................406

Biology of the Genus Cephalorhynchus. R. L. Brownell, Jr. and G. P. Donovan, eds.
International Whaling Commission, Cambridge, U.K.
Reviewed by John E. Heyning.

New Books ..........................................................................................................................407

BUSINESS ..........................................................................................................................408

LETTERS

Errata ...................................................................................................................................411

NEWS .................................................................................................................................413

INDEX Volume 5 -1989 ......................................................................................................415