Figures & data
Table 1 Hierarchical classification of individual and group behavioural reactions of bottlenose dolphins to biopsy sampling (adapted from Schneider et al. 1998; Krützen et al. 2002)
Table 2 Description of individual (IR) and group behavioural reactions (GR) of bottlenose dolphins in the Bay of Islands when a dart remained stuck; including the time elapsed until the dart detached and the time the dolphin was observed post-biopsy
Table 3 Level of behavioural responses (LR) of bottlenose dolphins (T. truncatus) in the Bay of Islands (BOI) and Doubtful Sound (DS) to remote biopsy sampling; including individual, group and responses to hit and misses
Figure 1 Behavioural states of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) during biopsy sampling attempts in the Bay of Islands (n=126) and Doubtful Sound (n=39), New Zealand.
Table 4 Summary of sighting events for 40 individually identified dolphins that were biopsy sampled (BS) in the Bay of Islands from 2002–06
Table 5 Cormack Jolly Seber open population models conducted in MARK to estimate capture probabilities of bottlenose dolphins sighted annually in the Bay of Islands from 2003–05
Figure 2 Wound healing in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) biopsy sampled in the Bay of Islands documented during different time periods. Biopsy scars are indicated by the arrow.
