Incidental mortality events of the Indo-Pacific Finless Porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides in Kuwait, Northwestern Arabian Gulf

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Acknowledgements

We thank the authorities of EPA and the following individuals: Dr. Dareen Al-Mojil (New York University, Abu Dhabi), Nancy Papathanasopoulou (Biodiversity Middle East), Dr. James Bishop, Margrie Ruth Deemer, Kirsten Allen, Mike Pope, Dr. Zainab Al -Wazzan, Talal Al-Sarhan (Kuwait Dive Team), Bashar Al-Huneidi (Kayak 4 Kuwait), Alanoud Al-Mesbah for sharing the dataset related to incidental mortality of Indo-Pacific Finless Porpoise from Kuwait. We also thank Drs. R. P. Kumarran, Marine Mammal Consultant, India for his critical comments on the earlier drafts of the manuscript and Gopikrishna Mantha, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research for his assistance in preparing Figure S2.

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