Acoustic and diving behavior of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) during natural and depredation foraging in the Gulf of Alaska

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Main Authors: Mathias, Delphine, Thode, Aaron, Straley, Jan, Calambokidis, John, S. Schorr, Gregory, Folkert, Kendall
• Other Authors: Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), University of Alaska Southeast (UAS), Cascadia Research Collective, Chercheur indépendant
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment; Creak; Gulf of Alaska; Physeter macrocephalus; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00904056; https://hal.science/hal-00904056/document; https://hal.science/hal-00904056/file/Mathias_2012.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4726005

International audience Sperm whales have depredated black cod (Anoplopoma fimbria) from demersal longlines in the Gulf of Alaska for decades, but the behavior has recently spread in intensity and geographic cover- age. Over a three-year period 11 bioacoustic tags were attached to adult sperm whales...