Dear all, here are some new publications of week 15 / 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. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Lev, E. (2006): Healing with animals in the Levant from the 10th to the 18th century. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2(11): . Natoli, A. et al. (2006): Phylogeography and alpha taxonomy of the common dolphin (Delphinus sp.). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19(3): 943-954. Marcoux, M., H. Whitehead, and L. Rendell (2006): Coda vocalizations recorded in breeding areas are almost entirely produced by mature female sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 84(4): 609-614 . Borsa, P. (2006): Marine mammal strandings in the New Caledonia region, Southwest Pacific. Comptes rendus Biologies 329(4): 277-288. Popov, V.V. et al. (2006): Nonconstant quality of auditory filters in the porpoises, Phocoena phocoena and Neophocaena phocaenoides (Cetacea, Phocoenidae). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119(5): 3173-3180. Finneran, J.J. and D.S. Houser (2006): Comparison of in-air evoked potential and underwater behavioral hearing thresholds in four bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119(5): 3181-3192. PINNIPEDIA Boren, L.J. et al. (2006): Entanglement of New Zealand fur seals in man-made debris at Kaikoura, New Zealand. Marine Pollution Bulletin 52(4): 442-446. Palo, J.U. and R. Väinölä (2006): The enigma of the landlocked Baikal and Caspian seals addressed through phylogeny of phocine mitochondrial sequences. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88(1): 61-72. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de