Miscellaneous injuries. Multifarious disease conditions and injuries found occasionally in Black Sea bottlenose dolphins (Table 8) were not attributed to the above-mentioned types of pathologies, although most inflammatory lesions in integument tissues and internal organs could be possibly caused by known (but not isolated) viruses, bacteria, fungi and helminths. The current knowledge on non-infectious diseases and congenital anomalies (e.g. arteriosclerosis and partial albinism) is very limited. Parallel skin scars caused by intraspecific interaction are the most frequent traumatic lesions recorded in bottlenose dolphins.
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