California Sea Lion, Bottlenose Dolphin, and Orca Whale
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Management Unit, which ranges from Virginia to Cape Lookout, North Carolina
throughout the year and mixes with the Northern Migratory Unit during winter.
The Southern North Carolina Management Unit is the third stock and is found
from Cape Lookout, North Carolina to South Carolina year round. This stock
mixes with the others off of North Carolina during the winter months [21].
2.2.3.5 Bottlenose Dolphins and Birth Factors
From1995to2006, five healthassessmentcaptureoperations resulted inthemarking
of 81 dolphins in North Carolina [21]. Interpopulation comparisons of the life
history, demography, and social structure of dolphins are most likely to reveal
constraints, geographical patterns, and ...