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A Systematic Health Assessment of Indian Ocean Bottlenose (Tursiops aduncus) and Indo-Pacific Humpback (Sousa plumbea) Dolphins Incidentally Caught in Shark Nets off the KwaZulu-Natal Coast, South Africa

Coastal dolphins are regarded as indicators of changes in coastal marine ecosystem health that could impact humans utilizing the marine environment for food or recreation. Necropsy and histology examinations were performed on 35 Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) and five Indo-Pacif...

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Autores principales: Lane, Emily P., de Wet, Morné, Thompson, Peter, Siebert, Ursula, Wohlsein, Peter, Plön, Stephanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4159300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25203143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107038