Behavioral Responses of Naïve Cuvier’s Beaked Whales in the Ligurian Sea to Playback of Anthropogenic and Natural Sounds

15: Behavioral Responses of Naïve Cuvier's Beaked Whales in the Ligurian Sea to Playback of Anthropogenic and Natural Sounds

Behavioral Responses of Odontocetes to Playback of Anthropogenic and Natural Sounds

The long-term goal of this research project is to safely study responses of beaked whales to naval sounds in order to understand the causal chain of events leading from sound exposure to risks of stranding and to measure the exposure required to elicit responses that are safe but indicate potential for risk. The project is designed to provide critical information required to develop measures to...

Baseline Behavior of Pilot Whales and their Responses to Playback of Anthropogenic and Natural Sounds

This project investigated the social ecology and baseline behavior of long-finned pilot whales as part of a broad multi-investigator research program that seeks to understand how cetaceans are affected by mid-frequency sonar and other sources of anthropogenic noise. The study of how noise affects large delphinids is important since results so far have suggested that they have different response...

15: Social Ecology and Group Cohesion in Pilot Whales and Their Responses to Playback Of Anthropogenic and Natural Sounds

This project investigates the social ecology and cohesion of long-finned pilot whales as part of a broad multi-investigator research program that seeks to understand how cetaceans are affected by midfrequency sonar and other sources of anthropogenic noise. The study of how noise affects large delphinids such as pilot whales is important since these species have different social systems and seem...

Acoustic playback experiments to study behavioral responses of free - ranging marine animals to anthropogenic sound

Growing concern about the effects of anthropogenic sound on marine life has highlighted the need for empirical methods to study behavioral responses of marine animals to specific acoustic exposures. Some effects have been discovered by observing coincidence of effects with sound exposure, e.g. beaked whales such as Ziphius cavirostris and Mesoplodon densirostris may mass strand during sonar exe...