Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals https://lajamjournal.org/index.php/lajam <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><strong>Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals (LAJAM)</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> publishes peer reviewed articles on the research, management and conservation biology of aquatic mammals in Latin America. Articles on theory or techniques broadly applicable to aquatic mammals will also be considered, even when the research has taken place outside Latin America.</span></p> <p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Sociedad Latinoamericana de Especialistas en Mamíferos Acuáticos (SOLAMAC)</p> <p><strong>ISSN</strong> 2236-1057 (online) <strong>ISSN</strong> 1676-7497 (print) <strong>DOI Prefix </strong>10.5597</p> Sociedad Latinoamericana de Especialistas en Mamíferos Acuáticos (SOLAMAC) en-US Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 1676-7497 Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:<br /><ol type="a"><br /><li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li><br /><li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</li><br /><li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</li></ol> Oswaldo Vasquez Ravelo (1959-2024) https://lajamjournal.org/index.php/lajam/article/view/1725 Phillip J. Clapham Olivier Adam Jaime Bolaños-Jiménez Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez Yulia V. Ivashchenko Amy S. Kennedy Marlen I. Vasquez Michel Vély Copyright (c) 2025 Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 2025-02-09 2025-02-09 10.5597/lajam00447 Dr. Eric Angel Ramos - a shooting star that inspired marine mammalogists and beyond (1987 – 2024) https://lajamjournal.org/index.php/lajam/article/view/1729 Laura J May-Collado Jeremy J. Kiszka D. Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez Beth Brady Guillaume Rieucau Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske Renata Sousa-Lima Diana Reiss Marcelo Magnasco Roderic Mast Wayne Sentman Joy S. Reidenberg Copyright (c) 2025 Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 2025-01-03 2025-01-03 10.5597/lajam00348