Blood-based indicators of metabolic syndrome and fatty acid values during 24-week feeding study with six bottlenose dolphins on modified diet and comparisons of values during weeks 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 compared to baseline week 0.

1Results when removing dolphin with high testosterone and breeding behavior during study.
2Two outlier high ferritin dolphins, which also had decreasing ferritin during the feeding study, were removed to enable comparisons of mean values during the study (see text results).
3Based upon previously reported results on wild, free-ranging dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon (Mazzaro et al. 2012).
Significant P values are provided.