| infection with brucella ceti and high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls in bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) stranded in south-west england. | eight bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) that stranded in cornwall, south-west england, between june 2004 and december 2007 were examined using standardised postmortem examination and bacteriological methods. evidence of brucella species infection was found in four of these dolphins on culture. in addition, of the eight dolphins, four were positive and two were weakly positive for antibodies to brucella species on serological analyses of pericardial and other fluids using a competitive eli ... | 2011 | 21676987 |
| antibodies to brucella in marine mammals around the coast of england and wales. | following the isolation of previously unrecognised species of brucella from stranded seals and cetaceans in scotland and northern england, a serological survey was carried out to investigate the range of marine mammal species which may have been exposed to brucella species around the coasts of england and wales, the prevalence of infection and the temporal and geographical distribution of seropositive animals. serum collected from 153 stranded marine mammals from the coasts of england and wales ... | 1997 | 9416675 |
| postmortem evidence of interactions of bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) with other dolphin species in south-west england. | reports of violent interactions between bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) and harbour porpoises (phocoena phocoena) in the coastal waters of the uk are well documented. examination of stranded cetaceans by the cornwall wildlife trust marine strandings network and the uk cetacean strandings investigation programme has indicated that seven animals, of four other species, found stranded in south-west england, had pathology consistent with bottlenose dolphin interaction, including two juvenil ... | 2009 | 19820259 |
| behavior of a solitary sociable female bottlenose dolphin (tursiops truncatus) off the coast of kent, southeast england. | this article provides a report of the behavior of a solitary sociable dolphin studied on the southeast coast of england in 2007. this is the first study of its kind in which behavior of such a nonhuman animal was systematically studied. by the time of this study, this young female was highly interactive with people in the water. people accompanied the dolphin for 18.4% of the 100 hr of observation, and their presence changed her behavior. the study recorded 39 different behaviors; feeding and re ... | 2010 | 20017044 |