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Using Unoccupied Aerial Systems to Collect Dolphin Health Data
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Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops erebennus) are commonly seen in coastal and estuarine waters of the southeast U.S. However, in the past 20 ...
First Record of Microplastics in North American Bottlenose Dolphins ...
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NCCOS and academic partners have published a new methodology for extracting microplastics from gastrointestinal tracts of small cetaceans, such as ...
Photographs of Stranded Dolphin with Lesions Emphasizes Diseases of ...
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Free-swimming bottlenose dolphin (offshore ecotype) sighted off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, March 5, 2005, with raised gray to white nodules ...
Ranging patterns, spatial overlap, and association with dolphin ...
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Dolphins were classified into one of three ranging patterns (Coastal, Sound, or Estuary) based upon telemetry data. Coastal dolphins (likely members ...
Dolphin Awareness Month - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Dolphin Awareness Month – NCCOS scientists helped document the first record of microplastics in dolphins. Published on: 03/28/2024; Science Area(s) ...
Brucellosis in Stranded SC Bottlenose Dolphins Coincides with Calving ...
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NCCOS tested 282 stranded dolphins in South Carolina for brucellosis, caused by the bacterial pathogen Brucella ceti.Nearly 32% tested positive ...
Preliminary report on bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) uterine ...
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There has been little, if any, work performed on parity in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). The objective of this preliminary study was to ...
Successful Preliminary UAS Flights Collect Dolphin-blow Microbiome ...
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“Snotbot” drone flying close to the blow of a bottlenose dolphin. Collecting samples from the blow, or exhalations, of large whales using Unmanned ...
Persistent Organic Pollutants Unlikely Cause of Dolphin Health Issues ...
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A remote biopsy sample is collected from a bottlenose dolphin. Credit: NOAA. NCCOS scientists reported that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were ...
Bottlenose Dolphin Blood Gene Expression Indicator of Health
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NCCOS scientists recently described the blood transcriptome of bottlenose dolphins with collaborators at Dolphin Quest in Hawaii. This study ...
New Research on Microplastics in Marine Mammals and Human Health Risk ...
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Studying microplastic ingestion in dolphins can help inform human health risk assessments with environmentally-relevant exposure levels. Bonnie Ertel ...
Scientists Recognized for Role in Assessing Dolphin Mortalities
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Since July 2013, over 1,200 bottlenose dolphin mortalities have been reported from New York to Florida. Of the dolphins that have been tested ...
BBC Documentary Highlights Microplastics Detection in Bottlenose Dolphins
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While microplastics have been visibly detected in other marine wildlife species, they had not been observed in bottlenose dolphins until now. The ...
Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Bottlenose Dolphin Occurrence in ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/temporal-and-spatial-aspects-of-bottlenose-dolphin-occurrence-in-coastal-and-estuarine-waters-near-charleston-south-carolina/
The spatial and temporal occurrence of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the coastal and estuarine waters near Charleston, SC were ...
Discarded Aluminum Foil Contributes to Recent Bottlenose Dolphin Death
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A necropsy of a female bottlenose dolphin stranded in emaciated condition last month on Edisto Beach, South Carolina, revealed a largepiece of ...
Marine Life in Gulf of Mexico Face Multiple Challenges
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Marine sentinels, like bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, share this coastal environment with humans and consume food from many of the same ...
Study Reveals Link Between Dolphin Skin Disease and Climatic Factors
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Skin disease was also found to be more prevalent for dolphins from lower salinity waters within the Georgia study area. The findings from this study ...
Marine Mammals off U.S. East Coast Highly Vulnerable to Climate Change ...
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Some of the stocks most highly vulnerable to climate change are North Atlantic right whale, Rice’s whale, and several Gulf of Mexico bay, sound, and ...
Assessing movements of three buoy line types using DSTmilli loggers ...
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Results from this study showed that stiffened line, in particular the medium lay Esterpro type, produced the more desirable profiles that could reduce ...
A pilot study to determine the movements of buoy line used in the crab ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/a-pilot-study-to-determine-the-movements-of-buoy-line-used-in-the-crab-pot-fishery-to-assess-bottlenose-dolphin-entanglement/
A pilot study on the characteristics of crab pot buoy line movements to assess bottlenose dolphin entanglement was conducted from 19 September to 30 ...