Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara
TRI, Director of research, Chairman of the board. Marine vertebrate ecology and behaviour. D. Biol. Sci. Univ. Parma (1974); D. Nat. Sci. Univ. Parma (1976); Ph.D. Marine biology, Univ. California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1985).

Giovanni Bearzi
Adriatic Dolphin Project, Director. TRI, Member of the Board. Cetacean ecology and behaviour. D. Biol. Sci. Univ. Padova (1989).

Elena Politi
TRI, Member of the Board. Marine vertebrates ecology. D. Biol. Sci. Univ. Milano (1991).

Caterina Maria Fortuna
TRI, Research associate. Cetacean physiology and behaviour.

Giancarlo Lauriano
TRI, Research associate. Marine natural history. D. Nat. Sci. Univ. Roma (1992).

Drasko Holcer
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb Cetacean ecology.

Sylvan Oehen
Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich Cetacean acoustics and behaviour.

Melita Peharda
College of the Atlantic, Maine Marine biology.

Research assistants

Mario Matesic, Marta Picciulin, Sandra Pribanic, Luca Riva.

Cetaceans . . . Acknowledgements