Dear all, Marine Mammal Science Vol 24(2) has the following table of contents. By clicking the following link you are guided to Blackwell Synergy, where you can find abstracts and contact information: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/mms/24/2 Users of the Papyrus Bibliography System (for Mac and DOS/Windows) can download the references with abstracts and contact information from http://www.cetacea.de/mms. The Papyrus Bibliography System is free: http://www.researchsoftwaredesign.com Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann ------ Marine Mammal Science Vol. 24(2) ------ ARTICLES Friday, N.A. et al. 2008. Balancing bias and precision in capture-recapture estimates of abundance. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 253-275. Atkinson, S. et al. 2008. Impact of changing diet regimes on Steller sea lion body condition. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 276-289. Mintzer, V.J. et al. 2008. Stomach contents of mass-stranded short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) from North Carolina. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 290-302. Trillmich, F. et al. 2008. Age-related changes in hematocrit in the Galápagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) and the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii). Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 303-314. Freitas, C. et al. 2008. A simple new algorithm to filter marine mammal Argos locations. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 315-325. Winn, J.P. et al. 2008. Modeling whale entanglement injuries: An experimental study of tissue compliance, line tension, and draw-length. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 326-340. Gillett, R.M., B.N. White, and R.M. Rolland. 2008. Quantification and genetic profiling of DNA isolated from free-floating feces of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 341-355. Nelson, T.A. et al. 2008. Spatial-temporal patterns in intra-annual gray whale foraging: Characterizing interactions between predators and prey in Clayquot Sound, British Columbia, Canada. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 356-370. Poland, V.F. et al. 2008. Fine-scale study finds limited evidence of kin clustering in a gray seal colony. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 371-387. NOTES Harms, C.A., G.N. Lovewell, and D.S. Rotstein. 2008. Presumed hyperglycemic cataracts in a live-stranded minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) calf. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 388-397. Watson, A. et al. 2008. Distinctive osteology of distal flipper bones of tropical bottlenose whales, Indopacetus pacificus, from Taiwan: Mother and calf, calf with polydactyly. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 398-410. Herreman, J.K., G.M. Blundell, and M. Ben-David. 2008. False sex-linked microsatellite primer for Phoca vitulina. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 411-413. LETTERS Springer, A.M. et al. 2008. Mammal-eating killer whales, industrial whaling, and the sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: A reply to critics of Springer et al. 2003. Marine Mammal Science 24(2): 414-442. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de