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Rescue, Veterinary Care, and Necropsy of a Stranded Clymene Dolphin (Stenella clymene) from the Caribbean Coast of Colombia
Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni1,2,*, Ana M. Aguirre-González3, Susana J. Caballero-Gaitán4, Lesly J. Cabrias-Contreras1, John A. Cabrera-Pallares5, Michelle M. Dennis2,6, Rafael H. Espinoza-Forero7, Yenyfer Moná-Sanabria3, Nicolas Restrepo-Garzónr4,5, Sandra M. Reyes-Ricardo5, Carla I. Rivera-Pérez1,2, Roberto Sanchez-Okrucky8, Dalila Caicedo-Herrera3, and Fernando Trujillo-González3
1Caribbean Manatee Conservation Center, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, 500 Carretera Dr. John Will Harris, Bayamón, Puerto Rico 00957, USA. 2Center for Conservation Medicine and Ecosystem Health, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, PO Box 334, Basseterre, St. Kitts. 3Fundación Omacha, Calle 84 #21-64, Barrio El Polo, Bogotá, Colombia. 4Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular de Vertebrados Acuáticos (LEMVA), Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Carrera 1 No 18A–10, Bogotá, Colombia. 5Corporación Autónoma Regional de Sucre (CARSUCRE), Carrera 25 #25-101, Avenida Okala, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia. 6Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. 7Corporación Autónoma Regional de los Valles del Sinú y del San Jorge (CVS), Carrera 6 #61-25, Barrio Los Bongos, Montería, Cordoba, Colombia. 8The Dolphin Company, Banco Chinchorro 87, 13, 77504, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. *Corresponding author.
Caribbean Naturalist, No. 81 (2021)
Abstract
Stenella clymene (Clymene Dolphin) is an oceanic endemic species of the Atlantic Ocean, well-documented in the Gulf of Mexico, but mostly unknown from the Caribbean. Here we report on the stranding, rescue, veterinary care, necropsy, and genetic species confirmation of 2 Clymene Dolphins from the Caribbean coast of Colombia in 2018 and 2020. Rescue and veterinary care protocols for oceanic cetacean species are uncommon, and were adapted from known dolphin species under human care. Upon the demise of 1 of the dolphins, complete post-mortem analysis of gross internal findings, histopathology, and genetics yielded important information to understand the specific stranding event, which will be useful in future offshore dolphin stranding events to improve emergency care and treatment and ultimately the conservation of the endemic species. The 2 Clymene Dolphin stranding events constitute the eleventh and twelfth known strandings of the species for the Caribbean and the first and second records for Colombia.
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