::. ORCA - SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS .::

ORCA
ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION OF AQUATIC ANIMALS

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

The research conducted by the Science & Animal Welfare Department started the foundation of what ORCA is today, setting the background for our biological, medical and environmental assessment through seven long-term research programs. Our programs are closely linked together, connecting animal health, public health and environmental health under the current concept of ONE HEALTH.

SCIENCE PROGRAMS

As part of our objective to provide educational opportunities to deploy initiatives or being part of something bigger. Our students from around the world manage exclusive data to publish for many of them their first time and publication experience. The Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals is the main scientific event in which ORCA's research team presents our findings, scientific work and vanguard discoveries in the lost frontier of the Peruvian South Pacific, representing marine mammals.

70 CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Our programs range from monitoring health of individual marine mammals and their populations, to registration of strandings, medical assessment of both dead and alive cases.

2023

Situational analysis of zoonosis in Pinnipeds of Mexico and Peru.

2022

Using GIS to pinpoint hot spots of cetacean strandings in Peru: A 10-year review.

Hemispheric comparison of infectious diseases in Pinnipeds of Mexico and Peru

The importance of marine mammals at Isla Foca, Peru: Small scale monitoring and its large-scale conservation impact.

North of Peru: A hot-spot or a hot stop for cetaceans.

Entangled whales in the Northeast South Pacific: A passive growing threat in Peru and Ecuador.

Marine mammals in Peru with cookie-cutter shark bite (Isistius brasiliensis): First record of interspecific interactions.

Yaipén-Llanos, C. F. 2022. Health assessment information from live cetaceans stranded in Peru: A 20-year data set. 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. Society for Marine Mammalogy. Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. August 1st to 5th, 2022.

2019

Characterization of degenerative diseases in marine mammals of Peru: Increased incidence over 10 years.

Internship experience at ORCA PERU in research, rescue and rehabilitation of marine mammals on the coast of Peru.

Geo-spatial analysis on oil spill risk for marine mammals in Peru: In need of an action plan.

From Sky to Shining Sea: Integrating remote sensing and field-based surveys to map the consequences of mining on South American sea-lions (Otaria byronia).

Off-range Southern elephant seal

(Mirounga leonina)

and Antarctic fur seal

(Arctocephalus gazella)

stranded at the coast of Peru: A “La Niña” side effect?

Helicobater pylori

infection in South American sea-lions (Otaria byronia): High risk of human transmission.

2017

Osteological lesions in Peruvian marine mammals: Long term health assessment tool.

Analysis of the impact of pollution on marine mammals: Five years of Orca Junior team monitoring ocean health in Lima city, Peru.

South American sea-lion (Otaria byronia) human directed unusual mortality events in Peru: Can they be prevented?

High mercury levels in marine mammals of Peru associated to degenerative diseases.

The challenge of ecotourism in northern Peru: Current situation and potential for marine conservation initiatives.

Ecotourism and conservation of South American sea-lions (Otaria byronia): A journey for local sustainable development in central Peru.

2015

A 15-year review of the trends in human aggression towards South American sea-lions

(Otaria flavescens)

in Peru.

Relationship between the Orca Junior Education Program and the development of marine mammal rescues in Peru.

First cases of diabetes in South American sea-lion (Otaria byronia) in Peru: Health assessment and clinical findings.

2013

Wakama Natural Refuge in Peru: Conservation tool or dead trap for marine mammals?

Analysis of the conservation strategies for Isla Foca in northern Peru: Marine mammals in a misplaced lawless location.

The positive human impact in the conservation of marine mammals: The use of education for environmental development in Peru.

10 years assisting live strandings: A review on marine mammal medicine in Peru.

2012

Acoustic impact as cause of mass stranding of cetaceans.

Relation between feeding and recovery capability of

Otaria byronia

during the rehabilitation process.

Behavioral description of the South American sea-lion, Otaria byronia (Blainville, 1820) in Palomino islands, Lima, Peru.

Human impact on marine mammals at Wakama Natural Refuge.

2011

Colorfur: Assesing human impact on the development of South American sea-lions (Otaria byronia)

O sea-lion, where are thou? The influence of the anchovy fishery on the presence of South American sea-lion (Otaria byronia) colonies in the Peruvian coast.

Effects of “eco-tourism” boats on the behavior of South American sea-lions (Otaria byronia) on Palomino Islands, Lima, Peru.

Government and private initiatives for marine mammal conservation of Peru: An analysis of cumulative effects.

Cumulative effects on marine mammals in Peru: Challenges in animal, public and environmental health.

2010

Pulmonary, hepatic and renal lesions in stranded marine mammals in the coat of Lima, Peru.

2009

A Ministry of Environment in Peru: A new chance for marine mammal conservation?

Unusual ocurrence of newborn “black coat” pups of South American sea-lions (Otaria byronia) stranded in central Peru.

New cases of lymphoma and plasmocytoma in South American sea-lions (Otaria byronia) in Peru.

Neurological disorder associated to distemper in South American Sea-lions: First epizootic report in Peru.

Seasonality of cetacean strandings in Peru.

Threats and trends on marine mammals of Peru: An analysis of viable solutions.

Are humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) harassed in the western coast of South America?

Human impact assessment on marine mammals: Wakama natural refuge and Camisea gas distribution plant in Peru.

Marine mammals for teachers: How to educate learning conservation?

Health assessment on marine otter (Lontra felina) population in central coast of Peru.

2007

South American sea-lions ethology during rehabilitation.

Sea Turtle Division: Issues and vision for their conservation in Peru.

Necropsies in stranded cetaceans reveal interaction with artisanal fisheries artesanal in Peru: 2003-2007.

Behavior ecology of costal dolphins in central Peru: What do they do?

Marine otter (Lontra felina) Fact Sheet.

Anatohistopathological analysis of neoplasms in South American sea-lions (Otaria flavescens): Chronical disease present in the Southern Ocean.

Marine mammal assessment integrating avian flu monitoring efforts.

2005

Factors affecting reproductive behavior of sea-lions in Peru.

Human interaction impact on cetacean strandings along Peruvian coast.

Marine mammal conservation through youth involvement in Peru: Strategies from and for a new generation.

Photo identification and classification of bottle-nose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in central coast of Peru.

Distribution and population of cetaceans in the central coast of Peru.

A vision of conservation: Strategies integrating marine mammals into public awareness in Peru.

2004

Human interaction impact on South American sea-lions recorded in strandings along central Peruvian coast.

Method for field identification of South American sea-lions: Operational tool for research and management.

Medical findings in a South American sea-lion (Otaria byronia) newborn pup.

First case of neoplasm in South American sea-lion (Otaria byronia) from Peru.

Population ecology of resident South American sea-lions (

Otaria flavescens

) along the central Peruvian coast.

First case of rescue, rehabilitation and release in Peru: South American sea-lion (

Otaria byronia

2003

Can a marine mammal law be developed in Peru? An analysis of environmental legal order.

Stranding network in Peru: 110 recorded medical cases reveal human induced mortality as main causes.

Conservation of marine mammals in Peru: New educational experience for fishermen’s children.

Osteology analysis on marine otter (Lontra felina) from the northern population: Peru.

08 UNIVERSITY THESIS

Our programs range from monitoring health of individual marine mammals and their populations, to registration of strandings, medical assessment of both dead and alive cases.

Protocol follow-up in the rehabilitation of weaned pups of South American sea-lion (Otaria byronia) with gastrointestinal failure stranded in the winter season on the beaches of Lima, Peru.

Analysis of the impact of a rehabilitation center for marine mammals of ORCA in San Bartolo, Lima, Peru.

Histopathological analysis of gastritis in South American sea-lions

(Otaria byronia)

stranded in Lima, Peru

First report of clinical signs and histopathological findings of

distemper

in South American sea-lions

(Otaria byronia)

in Perú - 2008

Anatomopathologic study of lung, liver and kidney of marine mammals stranded in the coast of Lima.

Seasonality of stranded pinnìpeds in the central coast of Peru.

Analysis and anatomohistopathological characterization of lesions found in tonsils and pharynx of South American sea-lion (Otaria byronia): Lymphoma and papilloma.

First recorded cases of stranded marine mammals associated to human interaction.

SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Our programs range from monitoring health of individual marine mammals and their populations, from the registration of strandings and medical assessment of both dead and alive cases, to the ecological, ethological and biological record of critical cases for science development in the Eastern South Pacific.

Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) in the Galapagos Islands and the Eastern Tropical Pacific Amid Ocean Environmental Changes: Towards a Habitat Suitability Index.

Histopathological aspects and etiology of pneumonias in stranded marine mammals from Lima, Peru.

Initial protocol for stranded sea-lions (

Otaria flavescens

Arctocephalus australis

MENTIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ORCA research, data, cases, personnal communications and experiences are also presented in third parties publications, receiving the recognition of a long-standing research and conservation organization, with over 23 years of experience in the field.

Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella, Peters 1875)

Taste receptors in aquatic mammals: Potential role of solitary chemosensory cells in immune responses.

Human interactions with turtles & tortoises: An annotated bibliography.

The last fluke of the trip: Preventing ship strike risk for Humpback whales in Peru.

First record of live-stranded killer whale (Orcinus orca) in coastal Ecuador and insights of killer whale occurrance in Ecuadorian waters.

First record of Galapagos fur seal

Arctocephalus galapagoensis

) in Guatemala.

Population status, anthropogenic stressors and conservation of the Galapagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis): An overview.

Review of the Effects of Offshore Seismic Surveys in Cetaceans: Are Mass Strandings a Possibility?.

On the presence of a vagrant Juan Fernández fur seal (Arctocephalus philippii) in the Pacific coast of Colombia: a new extralimital record.

SPECIAL REPORTS

Our research conducted directly in the field lead ORCA towards unique findings that are shared with local authorities in special technical reports from crime scene investigations from mass mortality events, individual strandings, and land or sea human-impact surveys.

Veterinary medical diagnosis of the mass mortality event of long-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus capensis) and Burmeister’s porpoises (Phocoena spinipinnis) in the northern coast of Peru, February-April, 2012

WORKSHOPS & ORAL PRESENTATIONS

ORCA is tightly related to the international community presenting, organizing and conducting workshops and special presentations for academia, conference, and environmental councils.

ORAL PRESENTATION AT THE JUNEAU WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL

The Ocean’s Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Awareness and Conservation. Yaipén-Llanos, Carlos F. Oral presentation. Juneau World Affairs Council. September 30th, 2017.

Our publications and scientific work is mentioned in dozens of scientific publications from third parties from around the world, including ORCA work, findings, cases, and researchers in their references.

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