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This week: Frasers dolphin
Presenters: Cindy Elliser, Katrina MacIver
Music by Josh Burns
Sources:
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/frasers-dolphin
https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/species-guide/frasers-dolphin/
https://cascadiaresearch.org/hawaii-species/frasers-dolphins-hawaii/
https://www.marinebio.org/species/frasers-dolphins/lagenodelphis-hosei/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser%27s_dolphin
https://www.dolphins-world.com/frasers-dolphin/#google_vignette
New Research
• West et al. 2021, Novel Morbillivirus in rare Fraser’s dolphin, Maui, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-94460-6
• Durante et al 2016 POPs in South Latin America, common and frasers - https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/bitstream/handle/11336/38484/CONICET_Digital_Nro.f76cda30-a15e-4926-a7af-134f876f2aeb_A.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
• Vu et al 2020 – New record of Frasers from Whale Temples and Fishing Communities of Vietnam - https://www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/46.4-Vu.pdf
• Chen-Yi Su et al 2022 and 2023, Wound healing in Frasers - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/5/537 and https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/10/1681 and https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/12/1482
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Published 11/16/24
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Published 11/04/24