Dear Colleagues, please, find bellow a link to a recently published paper from my lab on laterality in whales. Actually, we are not all specialists in whale biology, but more interested in topics related to evolution of brain asymmetries and its ecological implications. Currently we are working with other mammals, too. Though, I am posting this short comment to the marine mammals list in a genuine belief, that the fact on laterality in calf-mother interactions in wild beluga whales might be of some interest to your community. Please, note, that I am not a regular subscriber to this list, so if you have any questions or specific requests, please address them to me directly. The paper is freely available (including pdf) at PLoS ONE web site: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013787 Since PLoS ONE is a unique resource, which allows not only to download published papers, but also to discuss them, you may also wish to forward the link to others and/or leave your own critical comments on the paper page at the PLoS ONE web site to facilitate scientific discussion of the issues raised in our paper. Yours, Yegor Malashichev -- Dr. Yegor B. Malashichev, Associate Professor/Dozent Department of Embryology & Department of Vertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia. Phone: +7(812)328-9453; -9689; Fax: +7(812)328-9569 e-mail: malashichev@gmail.com http://www.zp.pu.ru/rus/myb.htm http://www.neuroscience.spb.ru/i10n/ru/?page=cv&id=31&action=show P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.