Dear all, here are some new publications of week 18/ 2008, 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.php 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 Certain, G. et al. (2008): Delphinid spatial distribution and abundance estimates over the shelf of the Bay of Biscay. ICES Journal of Marine Science 65(4): 656-666. Herman, L.M., R.K. Uyeyama, and A.A. Pack (2008): Bottlenose dolphins understand relationships between concepts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31(2): 139-140. Williamson, C. (2008): Dolphin Assisted Therapy: can swimming with dolphins be a suitable treatment? Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 50(6): 477. Kunito, T. et al. (2008): Arsenic in marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 195(): 31-69. PINNIPEDIA Lyamin, O.I. et al. (2008): Electroencephalogram asymmetry and spectral power during sleep in the northern fur seal. Journal of Sleep Research 17(2): 154-165. Sanfelice, D. and T.R.O. de Freitas (2008): A Comparative Description of Dimorphism in Skull Ontogeny of Arctocephalus australis, Callorhinus ursinus, and Otaria byronia (Carnivora: Otariidae). Journal of Mammalogy 89(2): 336-346. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Liu, A.G.S.C., E.R. Seiffert, and E.L. Simonsen (2008): Stable isotope evidence for an amphibious phase in early proboscidean evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(15): 5786-5791. Rodrigues, F.R. et al. (2008): Reproductive Anatomy of the Female Amazonian Manatee Trichechus inunguis Natterer, 1883 (Mammalia: Sirenia). The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology 291(5): 557-564. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de