Pacific White-sided Dolphin

Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) assessment.  Do a search for the common name of the animal you are studying. Proceed to "details" for the animal. 

BC Cetacean Sightings Network species information.

See information from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.

Aquafacts from the Vancouver Aquarium on dolphins and porpoises in BC.

SARA public registry information.

Photo identification of BC’s Pacific white-sided dolphins. Webpage temporarily not available.

Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises of British Columbia, Canada - DFO Publication

University of Michigan’s Animal Diversity Pages - NOT A CANADIAN PAGE

Information from the University of Guelph, Ontario.  Be sure to explore all the pages, links given on the left. 

"Smart Gear" =  net technology to reduce chance of entanglement of small cetaceans.

http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/sounds/dolphins.wav - Sound sample of dolphin echolocation (species unknown)

http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/A59B71D6C8A9EB17802568F800443577 - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society's species information.  Click "marine dolphins." Not a Canadian page

www.oceanlink.island.net - Bamfield Research Station’s detailed marine biology page search for your species

http://www.dosits.org/gallery/intro.htm -click your species name to hear its sounds! and http://www.dosits.org/animals/intro.htm - study how marine mammals make sound and how sound effects them.

http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/marine_mammals.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=94 - lots of detail about identification some information about  behaviour and threats. An international webpage. 

http://www.vanaqua.org/aquanews/archive.html - enter the species name in the search field to get any AquaNews bulletins posted by the Vancouver Marine Sciences Centre

http://www.dosits.org/gallery/marinemm/2.htm - click toothed whales and then Pacific white-sided dolphins for acoustic samples

http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/MinkeWhale.htm - fact pack from the American Cetacean Society. 

http://www.cms.int/reports/small_cetaceans/data/L_obliquidens/L_obliquidens.htm - this is a report by the Convention on Migratory Species looking at the threats to small cetaceans internationally.  See the bottom of the document for threats.  Not a Canadian page

http://www.vanaqua.org/education/aquafacts/ - Vancouver Aquarium’s web data base of frequently asked questions about marine ecosystems; click "Dolphins and Porpoises"

http://www.dolphinawareness.org/facts/main.html and http://www.bluevoice.org/dolphin/incite.html - the issue of dolphins taken for captivity and the slaughter of some species Not a Canadian page

http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=5 - Click "marine mammals" and do a search for your animal. Excellent on-line field guides Not a Canadian page

www.racerocks.com/racerock/marmam/mammals.htm and http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/archivemammals.htm
- involvement of Lester B. Pearson School in a fantastic marine mammal project.  Search the site at http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/web/sitemap.htm 

http://www.whalesongs.org/cetacean/home.html - natural history of cetaceans Not a Canadian page

http://netvet.wustl.edu/marine.htm  - net vet marine mammals; search links for information that may be relevant to your species Not a Canadian page