Dear MARMAM and ECS Talk Subscribers, For 50 years, Aquatic Mammals has published articles on all topics related to aquatic animals. In celebration of our 50th Anniversary, we are pleased to offer a special issue that acknowledges how the journal began and welcomes the insight to be gained from rare observations of individuals in both in- and ex-situ settings. This Special Issue of Anecdotes is intended to celebrate the insight that can be gained from rare or opportunistic observations in the field or in a managed care setting and is dedicated to capturing these observations for the record. Contributors have set their accounts into the literature as much as possible and contextualized their anecdote(s) such that its scope, generality, and potential application are recognized. Our goal has been to offer this special issue as a collective record so these insights and observations may provide perspective to our research and the animals we study. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we have during the review process. Thus, I am pleased to announce that Issue 48.6, A Special Issue of Anecdotes, is now available online from the journal’s website: https://www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/ This special issue is GIGANTIC! There are 54 articles (28 of which have supplemental videos, 8 with supplemental PDFs). The Table of Contents (3.5 pages long) is available by clicking on the Issue icon on the journal website’s home page to get to the issue and then clicking on the cover image for the PDF download. This PDF also includes the Introduction, a Sponsor Thank you, and cover photo caption list. On behalf of all contributing authors, I gratefully thank Zoomarine Algarve (Portugal) for sponsoring this special issue. Zoomarine’s sponsorship means that each article in this issue is available as Open Access. To download a PDF from this issue, you simply need to click one of the title links on the issue page, and then click on the link on that article’s page (lower left) … yes, it’s a 2-step process but they’re free! A big thank you to the journal’s copyedit, business, and social media teams for their effort and support in getting this issue out. And, thank you to Jim Darling for the initial issue concept idea and for being our Special Issue Guest Editor. Happy Birthday to the Journal and here’s to 50 more years! Cheers Kathleen P.S. On December 1, 2022, I will make a single PDF of the full issue available from the journal’s website. Because it is currently ~80 MB, we are reviewing the logistics for making this available. Stay tuned. P.S.S. For those of you with print subscriptions, this issue is now with the printer and we will be mailing 48.5 and 48.6 out in early December. Thank you for your patience. Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Ph.D. Editor, Aquatic Mammals business@aquaticmammalsjournal.org www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org to submit a manuscript, visit our: Manuscript Fast track web site at http://am.expressacademic.org/actions/author.php