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Fishery Bulletin 1 12(1) 
Table 3 
Measured lengths (cm) for marine mammal strandings identified to species and sex in North Carolina during 1997-2008. 
SD=standard deviation (SD). Min=minimum. Max=maximum. 
Female Male 
Species by family 
Mean 
SD 
Min 
Max 
n 
Mean 
SD 
Min 
Max 
n 
Balaenidae 
Eubalaena glacialis 
Balaenopteridae 
1490.0 
i 
633.5 
195.9 
495 
772 
2 
Balaenoptera acutorostrata 
466.5 
14.8 
456 
477 
2 
288.5 
6.4 
284 
293 
2 
Balaenoptera borealis 
1402.0 
1 
Balaenoptera edeni 
1105.0 
1 
Balaenoptera physalus 
1690.0 
1 
1720.0 
1 
Megaptera novaeangliae 
Delphinidae 
831.7 
76.5 
745 
890 
3 
889.1 
91.0 
763 
1065 
9 
Delphinus delphis 
201.1 
8.2 
182 
211 
17 
210.8 
24.2 
121 
229 
20 
Feresa attenuaia 
210.0 
7.1 
205 
215 
2 
Globicephala macrorhynchus 
336.0 
48.4 
210 
387 
26 
309.5 
122.3 
156 
506 
12 
Globicephala melas 
350.0 
1 
342.0 
181.0 
214 
470 
2 
Grampus griseus 
240.6 
30.7 
187 
261 
5 
242.8 
50.2 
164 
321 
10 
Lagenorhynchus acutus 
166.5 
2.1 
165 
168 
2 
202.0 
51.0 
152 
281 
9 
Peponocephala electra 
Pseudorca crassidens 
455.0 
1 
247.0 
1.4 
246 
248 
2 
Stenella attenuata 
191.0 
1 
Stenella clymene 
189.0 
1 
174.3 
35.0 
135 
202 
3 
Stenella coeruleoalba 
195.8 
26.4 
156 
217 
5 
214.2 
27.0 
152 
241 
30 
Stenella frontalis 
170.2 
32.0 
118 
212 
9 
195.6 
27.5 
150 
221 
8 
Stenella longirostris 
230.0 
2.8 
228 
232 
2 
Steno bredanensis 
235.0 
1 
191.0 
1 
Tursiops truncatus coastal 
199.3 
58.7 
85 
285 
334 
196.5 
59.3 
88 
334 
377 
Tursiops truncatus offshore 
Kogiidae 
276.5 
17.8 
245 
298 
6 
261.4 
36.5 
180 
291 
12 
Kogia breviceps 
241.1 
59.1 
117 
312 
16 
276.1 
43.7 
154 
346 
31 
Kogia sima 
Phocidae 
200.7 
33.8 
123 
242 
15 
207.1 
30.9 
133 
243 
15 
Cystophora cristata 
109.0 
11.8 
96 
119 
3 
112.4 
10.1 
94 
125 
6 
Halichoerus grypus 
92.0 
9.7 
78 
99 
4 
124.2 
14.4 
108 
136 
3 
Pagophilus groenlandicus 
114.0 
1 
103.0 
17.0 
91 
115 
2 
Phoca vitulina 
103.6 
19.6 
76 
135 
17 
104.3 
21.8 
83 
172 
21 
Phocoenidae 
Phocoena phocoena 
Physeteridae 
117.9 
13.6 
84 
169 
80 
115.4 
9.0 
99 
154 
79 
Physeter macrocephalus 
677.7 
321.9 
381 
1020 
3 
872.3 
407.5 
416 
1200 
3 
Trichechidae 
Trichechus manatus 
298.5 
9.9 
288 
310 
4 
Ziphiidae 
Mesoplodon densirostris 
383.6 
105.1 
196 
439 
5 
415.0 
11.3 
407 
423 
2 
Mesoplodon europaeus 
384.8 
89.1 
202 
463 
7 
407.8 
56.4 
295 
444 
6 
Mesoplodon mirus 
478.0 
1 
Ziphius cavirostris 
484.5 
55.9 
445 
524 
2 
response team arrived. Attempted rehabilitation was 
chosen for a greater percentage of seals (55%) than for 
cetaceans (3%). The majority of seals (72%) and mi- 
nority of cetaceans (2 of 7: 29%) were released after 
rehabilitation. 
Temporal patterns 
An average of 154 individual strandings (SD=30.6) 
or 148.1 stranding events (SD=23.8) were reported 
annually. The highest annual number of individu- 
