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Marine Mammal Strandings
1.
What is the date and time you observed a stranded animal?
Date / Time
Date
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2.
What is the location?
(Required.)
General info:
latitude
Longitude
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3.
Reporter Details
(Required.)
I saw the animal
I was sent pictures of the animal
Reporter details: (name, e-mail, phone)
4.
Condition of stranded animal?
Alive
Injured
Dead
Decomposing
5.
What Taxa is it?
cetacean species - baleen whale (e.g. minke whale)
cetacean species- toothed whale (e.g. common dolphin)
pinniped - grey seal (large in body size with "roman" nose)
pinniped - harbour seal (large eyes, smaller muzzle)
unidentified cetacean
unidentified pinniped
Please describe animal (size, colouration and patterning, no. of teeth, shape of dorsal fin, measurement of length, sex if possible)
6.
Were photographs taken?
Yes
No
7.
What species was it?
harbour porpoise (
Phocoena phocoena
)
short- beaked common dolphin (
Delphinus delphis)
bottlenose dolphin (
Tursiops truncatus)
Risso's dolphin (
Grampus griseus)
pilot whale (
Globicephala melas)
minke whale (
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
)
humpback whale (
Megaptera novaenglia)
fin whale (
Balaenoptera physalus)
killer whale (
Orcinus orca
)
harbour seal (
Phoca vitulina)
grey seal (
halichoerus grypus)
striped dolphin (
Stenella coeruleoalba
)
white- beaked dolphin (
Lagenorhynchus albirostris
)
Atlantic white-sided dolphin (
Lagenorhynchus acutus
)
Beaked whale sp. (Ziphiidae)
Unidentified (please describe)
8.
If it was a cetacean you cannot identify due to decay, how many teeth did it have?
19-28 pairs of teeth in each jaw- flat spade-like shape - harbour porpoise
18- 26 pairs of large pointy teeth, often worn at the back- bottlenose dolphin
40-56 pairs of needle like teeth in each jaw- common dolphin
45-50 pairs of teeth in each jaw - striped dolphin
22-28 pairs of teeth in each jaw - white-beaked dolphin
8- 12 pairs of teeth - long finned-pilot whale
2-7 pairs of teeth - Risso's dolphin
10 - 12 pairs of teeth - killer whale
18 -29 pairs of large peg like teeth in narrow lower jaw
Baleen whale
Other (please specify)
9.
No. of individuals stranded?
10.
Measurement of length from fork of tail to tip of rostrum (nose)?
No measurement taken
Yes (comment below)
Measurements and sex if known?
Current Progress,
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