Multidisciplinary studies on a sick-leader syndrome-associated mass stranding of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) along the Adriatic coast of Italy
Mass strandings of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are rare in the Mediterranean Sea. Nevertheless, in 2014 a pod of 7 specimens stranded alive along the Italian coast of the Central Adriatic Sea: 3 individuals died on the beach after a few hours due to internal damages induced by prolonged re...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6070578 2023-05-15T17:59:21+02:00 Multidisciplinary studies on a sick-leader syndrome-associated mass stranding of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) along the Adriatic coast of Italy Mazzariol, Sandro Centelleghe, Cinzia Cozzi, Bruno Povinelli, Michele Marcer, Federica Ferri, Nicola Di Francesco, Gabriella Badagliacca, Pietro Profeta, Francesca Olivieri, Vincenzo Guccione, Sergio Cocumelli, Cristiano Terracciano, Giuliana Troiano, Pasquale Beverelli, Matteo Garibaldi, Fulvio Podestà, Michela Marsili, Letizia Fossi, Maria Cristina Mattiucci, Simonetta Cipriani, Paolo De Nurra, Daniele Zaccaroni, Annalisa Rubini, Silva Berto, Daniela de Quiros, Yara Beraldo Fernandez, Antonio Morell, Maria Giorda, Federica Pautasso, Alessandra Modesto, Paola Casalone, Cristina Di Guardo, Giovanni 2018-08-01 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070578/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30068967 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29966-7 en eng Nature Publishing Group UK http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070578/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30068967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29966-7 © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. CC-BY Article Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29966-7 2018-08-12T00:23:48Z Mass strandings of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are rare in the Mediterranean Sea. Nevertheless, in 2014 a pod of 7 specimens stranded alive along the Italian coast of the Central Adriatic Sea: 3 individuals died on the beach after a few hours due to internal damages induced by prolonged recumbency; the remaining 4 whales were refloated after great efforts. All the dead animals were genetically related females; one was pregnant. All the animals were infected by dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) and the pregnant whale was also affected by a severe nephropathy due to a large kidney stone. Other analyses ruled out other possible relevant factors related to weather conditions or human activities. The results of multidisciplinary post-mortem analyses revealed that the 7 sperm whales entered the Adriatic Sea encountering adverse weather conditions and then kept heading northward following the pregnant but sick leader of the pod, thereby reaching the stranding site. DMV infection most likely played a crucial role in impairing the health condition and orientation abilities of the whales. They did not steer back towards deeper waters, but eventually stranded along the Central Adriatic Sea coastline, a real trap for sperm whales. Text Physeter macrocephalus PubMed Central (PMC) Scientific Reports 8 1 |
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Mass strandings of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are rare in the Mediterranean Sea. Nevertheless, in 2014 a pod of 7 specimens stranded alive along the Italian coast of the Central Adriatic Sea: 3 individuals died on the beach after a few hours due to internal damages induced by prolonged recumbency; the remaining 4 whales were refloated after great efforts. All the dead animals were genetically related females; one was pregnant. All the animals were infected by dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) and the pregnant whale was also affected by a severe nephropathy due to a large kidney stone. Other analyses ruled out other possible relevant factors related to weather conditions or human activities. The results of multidisciplinary post-mortem analyses revealed that the 7 sperm whales entered the Adriatic Sea encountering adverse weather conditions and then kept heading northward following the pregnant but sick leader of the pod, thereby reaching the stranding site. DMV infection most likely played a crucial role in impairing the health condition and orientation abilities of the whales. They did not steer back towards deeper waters, but eventually stranded along the Central Adriatic Sea coastline, a real trap for sperm whales. |
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Mazzariol, Sandro Centelleghe, Cinzia Cozzi, Bruno Povinelli, Michele Marcer, Federica Ferri, Nicola Di Francesco, Gabriella Badagliacca, Pietro Profeta, Francesca Olivieri, Vincenzo Guccione, Sergio Cocumelli, Cristiano Terracciano, Giuliana Troiano, Pasquale Beverelli, Matteo Garibaldi, Fulvio Podestà, Michela Marsili, Letizia Fossi, Maria Cristina Mattiucci, Simonetta Cipriani, Paolo De Nurra, Daniele Zaccaroni, Annalisa Rubini, Silva Berto, Daniela de Quiros, Yara Beraldo Fernandez, Antonio Morell, Maria Giorda, Federica Pautasso, Alessandra Modesto, Paola Casalone, Cristina Di Guardo, Giovanni |
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Multidisciplinary studies on a sick-leader syndrome-associated mass stranding of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) along the Adriatic coast of Italy |
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