Coastal dolphins are regarded as indicators of changes in coastal marine ecosystem health that could impact humans utilizing the marine environment for food or recreation. Necropsy and histology examinations were performed on 35 Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) and five Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa plumbea) incidentally caught in shark nets off the KwaZulu-Natal coast, South Africa, between 2010 and 2012. Parasitic lesions included pneumonia (85
作者：Emily P, Lane；Morné, de Wet；Peter, Thompson；Ursula, Siebert；Peter, Wohlsein；Stephanie, Pl?n
来源：PloS one 2014 年 9卷 9期
