1st Edition
BIO 358: Marine Mammals
School: University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW )
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Pages: 3This lecture gives a plausible explanation to the decline in sea otter population despite their protection since 1911. -
Pages: 4This lecture talks about the effects of Navy Sonar on marine mammals. -
Pages: 6This lecture describes the progression of whaling and litigation to control the "industry" -
Pages: 5This lecture covers the marine mammal protection act, the events leading up to it, and the events currently involved in it. -
Pages: 4I have answered the questions Dr. Pabst posted for the lecture we were meant to watch outside of class. -
Pages: 5This lecture covers diving studies using a D-Tag as a useful conservation tool for tracking dive patterns of both right whales and beaked whales. -
Pages: 3I took a few notes in the osteology lab and learned some really cool stuff from Dr. Rommel, Bill McLellan and Dr. Pabst! -
Pages: 5Bill McLelan came in and talked to us about stranding data and the types of strandings. Here are the notes on his presentation. -
Pages: 4this lecture continues to talk about diving physiology in both Weddell seals and elephant seals -
Pages: 5In this lecture we finished up talking about feeding and started learning about diving. -
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Pages: 3This lecture finishes up how odontocetes receive sound and then goes over how they produce sound. -
Pages: 6This lecture finishes talking about marine mammal adaptations to maintain their body temperature and starts to cover marine mammal enhanced sensory systems. -
Pages: 5This lecture covers how marine mammals (who are endotherms) live in water despite the fact that it removes heat from the body 25 times faster than air. -
Pages: 3This lecture tells the story of how molecular and fossil data came together to show cetaceans evolutionary relationship to artiodactyls. -
Pages: 6This lecture begins with an overview of some key terms to understand phylogeny and then goes into pinniped evolution. The end of the lecture touches on cetacean evolution. -
Pages: 6This lecture goes over the families and suborders of the Order Cetacea. -
Pages: 4This lecture finishes up pinnipeds and goes on to the ursids and the mustelids and the sirineans. The lecture finishes off with cetaceans. -
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Pages: 3Overview of what a marine mammal is, what they all have in common, and some of the impacts humans have on them.