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trips each winter. Instead, alternative techniques, 

 such as tracking the movements of individual por- 

 poises by satellite telemetry and the use of nontra- 

 ditional census techniques (e.g. acoustic surveys), 

 may reveal where these animals spend their winter 

 months. 



Acknowledgments 



We thank the observer, Dianne Borgaard, for her 

 careful observations and meticulous dissection at sea. 

 Damon Gannon identified the cephalopod prey re- 

 mains, Eugenia Bohlke identified the worm eel, 

 Stephanie Fernandez prepared the tooth sections, 

 and Aleta Hohn read the tooth and testis sections. 

 This research was supported by Contract 50-EANE- 

 2-00082 from the Northeast Fisheries Science Cen- 

 ter, NMFS/NOAA. 



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