Simulated field blood studies in the bottle-nosed dolphin Tursiops truncatus. 2. Effects of stress on some hematologic and plasma chemical parameters.

Hematologic and plasma chemical constituents were analyzed through a 72 hour period, on a bottle-nosed dolphin that had been subjected to excessive manipulation and carbon tetrachloride intoxication. Of the 19 parameters examined, creatine phosphokinase, glucose, and potassium, seem to have been mildly affected.