Dear all, here are some new publications of week 41 / 2006, which haven't been announced on MARMAM earlier AFAIK. By clicking the following link you are guided to a website, where the following references are linked to their according journal homepages. There you can find abstracts and contact information: http://www.mmbib.com/news.html Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Thanks to all of you who sent in reprints to be included in the weekly announcements. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Bianucci, G., W. Landini, and J. Buckeridge (2006): Whale barnacles and Neogene cetacean migration routes. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 49(1): 115-120. DeLorenzo Costa, A., E.G. Durbin, and C.A. Mayo (2006): Variability in the nutritional value of the major copepods in Cape Cod Bay (Massachusetts, USA) with implications for right whales. Marine Ecology 27(2): 109-123. Möller, L.M. et al. (2006): Association patterns and kinship in female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) of southeastern Australia. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61(1): 109-117. PINNIPEDIA Boness, D.J. et al. (2006): Mating tactics and mating system of an aquatic-mating pinniped: the harbor seal, Phoca vitulina. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61(1): 119-130. Boren, L.J., C.G. Muller, and N.J. Gemmell (2006): Colony growth and pup condition of the New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) on the Kaikoura coastline compared with other east coast colonies. Wildlife Research 33(6): 497-505. Hoffman, J.I., P.N. Trathan, and W. Amos (2006): Genetic tagging reveals extreme site fidelity in territorial male Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella. Molecular Ecology 15(12): 3841-3847. Lancaster, M.L. et al. (2006): Menage a trois on Macquarie Island: hybridization among three species of fur seal (Arctocephalus spp.) following historical population extinction. Molecular Ecology 15(12): 3681-3692. Lester, C.W. and D.P. Costa (2006): Water conservation in fasting northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris). Journal of Experimental Biology 209(21): 4283-4294. Ortiz, R.M. et al. (2006): Angiotensin II and Aldosterone Increase with Fasting in Breeding Adult Male Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 79(6): 1106-1112. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de