Cari volontari dei campi di ricerca, la stagione 2022 è stata piena di sorprese e ricca di partecipanti, nonostante l’emergenza sanitaria. E’ con rinnovato ottimismo che vi annunciamo che da Gennaio 2023 si aprono le iscrizioni per la prossima stagione 2023! Per motivi di sicurezza sanitaria, non possiamo ospitarvi come gli altri anni, ne gestire...

Few information is available on fin marks and movements of Mediterranean bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821), along the Italian coast, although significant photo-identification efforts took place in several areas. In this study, photographic data (833 images) of 370 dolphins collected by different organizations from 2003 to 2018 across six different areas in Sicily (Southern...

Information on movements and connectivity among populations of animals is important for the delineation of units to conserve, so that demographic parameters, such as abundance, fecundity and mortality, can be placed in an appropriate population and conservation context. Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are often considered relatively ‘resident’ and demonstrating strong site fidelity to specific...