Response behaviour of seals and penguins to helicopter surveys over the pack ice off East Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Author: SOUTHWELL, COLIN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2005
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; East Antarctica; Sikorsky; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102005002798; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102005002798

Data on the response behaviour of seals (crabeater, leopard and Ross) and penguins (Adélie and emperor) to helicopter surveys over the pack ice off East Antarctica are presented. The surveys involved Sikorsky S76 helicopters flying at altitude 130 m and speed 90 knots along straight-line transects....