If you consider the response that is generated by a whale stranding event in the U.S., you have a sense of what is possible.
The factors expected to affect the behavior of the seven sperm whales under study, and possibly causing their stranding, arose about 10 to 20 days before the event: therefore, the temporal resolution of stable isotopes does not allow to gain specific insights into very recent movements, and the possible concurrent role of starvation in this mass stranding event cannot be ruled out.
Analysis of remote sensing data (ocean color, temperature and currents) suggests relatively weak circulation, and presumably enhanced retention of the prolonged red tide bloom during the marine bird stranding event.
No hearing loss was found in stranded Rissos's dolphins (Grampus griseus) from three different stranding events, two pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) from a single stranding event, an Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis), and a spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris; Table 1).
Many species strand in coastal areas, as individuals or sometimes in large mass stranding events [3].
No impairments were detected in seven Risso's dolphins from three different stranding events, two pygmy killer whales, one Atlantic spotted dolphin, one spinner dolphin, or a juvenile Gervais' beaked whale.
Previous surveys reported solar activity and lunar cycles among those natural factors potentially causing and/or influencing sperm whale mass stranding events, thus prompting the search for relevant anomalies in our scenario.
In addition, the involvement of Bartonella species in disorders of the central nervous system and neurologic dysfunction in animals and humans (4 – 7 ) suggests that this genus should be considered in stranding events.
This effort suggests that our approach may constitute a practical and systematic example on how to investigate similar mass stranding events.
See below for photos of the Strand event taken by Aaron Reiss, quotes gathered during some of Ware's recent appearances, and pages from "Building Stories," courtesy of the artist.
For example, the term "Rogozin hotspots" is used sometimes to define mutable motifs associated with hotspots of somatic mutations in immunoglobulin genes (for example, Faili A, Aoufouchi S, Guéranger Q, Zober C, Léon A, Bertocci B, Weill JC, Reynaud CA. AID-dependent somatic hypermutation occurs as a DNA single-strand event in the BL2 cell line. Nat. Immunol. 2002, V.3, N 9, 815-821).
