Water Mammals

Flat Water Mammals

Toxicity of sea water in mammals.

T HE effects of administering sea water and similar solutions to animals, and occasionally to human beings, have been studied sporadically. Semipopular accounts of the gross effects of the drinking of sea water by shipwreck victims exist (I). During World War II the torpedoing of ships at sea and the loss of planes over open ocean, setting survivors adrift in lifeboats and on rafts, gave impetu...

Weather and Prey Predict Mammals’ Visitation to Water

Throughout many arid lands of Africa, Australia and the United States, wildlife agencies provide water year-round for increasing game populations and enhancing biodiversity, despite concerns that water provisioning may favor species more dependent on water, increase predation, and reduce biodiversity. In part, understanding the effects of water provisioning requires identifying why and when ani...

An Overview of Sex Selection at Conception in Mammals

Although the mechanisms under which sex ratio is controlled in nature remain unknown, researchers have attempted to treat sperm in an effort to predetermine the sex of the offspring. The methods of sperm separation that have been repeatedly reported to isolate fractions rich in X- or Y-chromosome bearing sperm are serum albumin gradient swim-up and flow cytometry. However, the ability of the se...

The mammals of Anzali Wetland, in the Southern Caspian Sea

Anzali Wetland as a listed habitat in Montreux Record, was investigated for the mammal fauna during Jan. 2015 - Jan. 2016. About 165 km of water bodies and 200 km around Anzali Wetland were patrolled, respectively. By applying different methods, such as direct observation, different signs recording, using different sampling traps, nets and camera traps, twenty mammal species were identified fro...