The study investigated the stomach content of Sillago sihama in Hormuzgan Province waters located in the northern Persian Gulf from October 2009 to March 2010. The stomach analysis was carried out using frequency of occurrence and numeric methods. Diatoms, blue- green algae and dinoflagellates constituted main food of plant origin. Diatoms were found to be the most preferable food of...

Diet is a fundamental aspect of animal ecology. Cetacean prey species are generally identified by examining stomach contents of stranded individuals. Critical uncertainty in these studies is whether samples from stranded animals are representative of the diet of free-ranging animals. Over two summers, we collected faecal and gastric samples from healthy free-ranging individuals of an extensivel...

This paper presents a case of poisoning of a male whose death occurred about 3 hours after onset of pain in his abdomen. The autopsy revealed semi-liquid contents in the stomach “with a distinct odour of carbide”. Post-mortem material together with a public prosecutor’s decision (request) for an expert opinion on the presence of carbide (calcium carbide, CaC2) or any other poisons in the stomac...

 The study investigated the stomach content of Sillago sihama in Hormuzgan Province waters located in the northern Persian Gulf from October 2009 to March 2010. The stomach analysis was carried out using frequency of occurrence and numeric methods. Diatoms, blue- green algae and dinoflagellates constituted main food of plant origin. Diatoms were found to be the most preferable food of plant ori...

This paper presents a standardized protocol for the non-lethal capture of fishes, sampling of stomach contents and quantification of seed dispersal efficiency by frugivorous fishes. Neotropical pacu Piaractus mesopotamicus individuals were collected with fruit-baited hooks. The diets of 110 fish were sampled using a lavage method, which retrieved >90% of stomach contents of both juveniles and a...

The biochemical process by which cells of the stomach produce hydrochloric acid remains a mystery. Although the approximate concentration of the acid has been calculated on indirect evidence, the exact concentration as it is secreted has not been determined in any animal. This is despite the fact that, over a period of many years, increasingly precise observations have been made. The difficulty...