Dear all, here are some new publications of week 20 / 2007, 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 Finneran, J.J. and C.E. Schlundt (2007): Underwater sound pressure variation and bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) hearing thresholds in a small pool. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1): 606-614. Garaffo, G.V. et al. (2007): Habitat use by dusky dolphin in patagonia: how predictable is their location? Marine Biology 152(1): 165-177. Lebeuf, M. et al. (2007): Temporal trends (1987-2002) of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals in beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada. Science of the Total Environment 383(1-3): 216-231. Liebig, P.M., K.W. Flessa, and T.-S.A. Taylor (2007): Taphonomic variation despite catastrophic mortality: Analysis of a mass stranding of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens), Gulf of California, Mexico. Palaios 22(4): 384-391. Morin, P.A. et al. (2007): Characterization of 18 SNP markers for sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). Molecular Ecology Notes 7(4): 626-630. Oswald, J.N. et al. (2007): A tool for real-time acoustic species identification of delphinid whistles. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1): 587-595. Rankin, S. and J. Barlow (2007): Sounds recorded in the presence of Blainville's beaked whales, Mesoplodon densirostris, near Hawai'i. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1): 42-45. Schlundt, C.E. et al. (2007): Simultaneously measured behavioral and electrophysiological hearing thresholds in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1): 615-622. Westing, A.H. (2007): The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads EDITED BY SCOTT D. KRAUS AND ROSALIND M. ROLLAND xviii + 543 pp., 34 colour plates, 24.2 Å~ 16.7 x 4.1 cm, ISBN 0 674 02327 7 hardback, US$ 55.00, Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Environmental Conservation 34(2): 178-179. Mattiucci, S. and G. Nascetti (2007): Genetic diversity and infection levels of anisakid nematodes parasitic in fish and marine mammals from Boreal and Austral hemispheres. Veterinary Parasitology 148(1): 43-57. Van Dyke, J. (2007): Killing our Oceans. Dealing with the Mass Extinction of Marine Life BY JOHN CHARLES KUNICH ix + 245 pp., 24 x 16 x 2 cm, ISBN 0 275 98878 3 hardback, US$ 49.95/GB£ 28.99, Westport, CT, USA: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Environmental Conservation 34(2): 178. PINNIPEDIA Amos, W. (2007): Mix and match - hybridization reveals hidden complexity in seal breeding behaviour. Molecular Ecology 16(15): 3066-3068. Cronin, M.A., C.D. Duck, and O.Ó. Cadhla (2007): Aerial surveying of grey seal breeding colonies on the Blasket Islands, Co. Kerry, the Inishkea Group, Co. Mayo and the Donegal Coast, Ireland. Journal for Nature Conservation 15(2): 73-83. How, O.-J. and E.S. Nordøy (2007): Seawater drinking restores water balance in dehydrated harp seals. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 177(5): 535-542. Luque, S.P. et al. (2007): Foraging behaviour of sympatric Antarctic and subantarctic fur seals: does their contrasting duration of lactation make a difference? Marine Biology 152(1): 213-224. Rogers, T.L. (2007): Age-related differences in the acoustic characteristics of male leopard seals, Hydrurga leptonyx. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1): 596-605. Siebert, U. et al. (2007): Pathological Findings in Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina): 1996-2005. Journal of Comparative Pathology 137(1): 47-58. Tucker, S., W.D. Bowen, and S.J. Iverson (2007): Dimensions of diet segregation in grey seals Halichoerus grypus revealed through stable isotopes of carbon (d13C) and nitrogen (d15N). Marine Ecology Progress Series 339(): 271-282. Túnez, J.I. et al. (2007): Geographic distribution and diversity of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in South American sea lions (Otaria flavescens) and fur seals (Arctocephalus australis). Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 72(4): 193-203. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Sarko, D.K. et al. (2007): Adaptations in the structure and innervation of follicle-sinus complexes to an aquatic environment as seen in the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). The Journal of Comparative Neurology 504(3): 217-237. Wirsing, A.J., M.R. Heithaus, and L.M. Dill (2007): Living on the edge: dugongs prefer to forage in microhabitats that allow escape from rather than avoidance of predators. Animal Behaviour 74(1): 93-101. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de