Sometimes sperm whales (physeter macrocephalus) cannot find their way back to the high seas: A multidisciplinary study on a mass stranding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Mazzariol, Sandro ^a   Guardo, Giovanni Di ^b   Petrella, Antonio ^c   Marsili, Letizia ^d   Fossi, Cristina M ^d   Leonzio, Claudio ^d   Zizzo, Nicola ^e   Vizzini, Salvatrice ^f   Gaspari, Stefania ^g   Pavan, Gianni ^h   Podestà, Michela ⁱ   Garibaldi, Fulvio ^j   Ferrante, Margherita ^k   Copat, Chiara ^k   Traversa, Donato ^b   Marcer, Federica ^a   Airoldi, Sabina ^l   Frantzis, Alexandros ^m   de Beraldo Quirós, Yara ⁿ   Cozzi, Bruno ^a   Fernández, Antonio ⁿ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA PUGLIA E DELLA BASILICATA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

ⁱ Natural History Museum of Milan   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^l Tethys Research Institute and IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas   (Italy)

^m Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute   (Greece)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SELENIUM; TRACE METAL; HEAVY METAL;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOMETRY; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METEOROLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; POLLUTION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SPERM WHALE; STARVATION; STOMACH CONTENT; WATER POLLUTANT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ITALY; METABOLISM; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METALS, HEAVY; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; ORIENTATION; SPERM WHALE;

EID: 79956205540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019417     Document Type: Article

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