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Aquatic Mammals

• Herd size dynamics and observations on the natural history of Dugongs (Dugong dugon) in the Andaman Islands, India

  <p>In the last four decades, dugong (Dugong dugon) aggregations have been rarely reported from the geographically isolated, vast seascape of the Andaman Islands, India.</p><a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Goleetal-2023_Dugongs_India.pdf"

  • 01/01/2023

  • Aquatic Mammals
  • • Mammals
    • Marine Life
    • Indian Ocean
    • Andaman Islands
    • Endangered Species

• Beaked whale strandings and naval exercises

  Mass strandings of beaked whales (family Ziphiidae) have been reported in the scientific liter-ature since 1874. Several recent mass strandings of beaked whales have been reported to coincide with naval

  • 01/12/2009

  • Aquatic Mammals
  • • Whales
    • Mammals
    • Marine Life
    • Research
    • Global
    • United States Of America (US)

• Records of Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins (Sousa chinensis, Osbeck, 1765) along the coasts of India and Sri Lanka: An overview

  <p>The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis, Osbeck, 1765) is found in coastal waters throughout the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, but the species has not been studied in detail along the

  • 01/01/2004

  • Aquatic Mammals
  • • Dolphin
    • Endangered Species
    • India
    • Sri Lanka
    • Goa
    • Gulf Of Kachchh
    • Marine Life