Interactions Among Behavioral Responses of Baleen Whales to Acoustic Stimuli, Oceanographic Features, and Prey Availability

• Main Author: Friedlaender, Ari
• Other Authors: SOUTHALL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATES INC APTOS CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Biology; Anatomy and Physiology; Ecology; Acoustics; *BEHAVIOR; *EXPOSURE(PHYSIOLOGY); *FEEDING; *PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; *UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; *UNDERWATER SOUND; *WHALES; CALIFORNIA; COASTAL REGIONS; DIVING; MEASUREMENT; PLANKTON; RESPONSE(BIOLOGY); SAMPLING; SONAR; *BALEEN WHALES; *SOUND EXPOSURE; *FORAGING BEHAVIOR; *PREY DISTRIBUTION; *PREY ABUNDANCE; PREY DENSITY; HUMAN SOUNDS; ANTHROPOGENIC SOUNDS; MILITARY SONAR; DIVING BEHAVIOR; KRILL; CONTROLLED EXPOSURE EXPERIMENTS; PREY SAMPLING; FORAGING ECOLOGY; baleen whales
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA599983; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA599983

The current project obtained basic distribution and density information for prey concurrent with foraging mysticete cetaceans during behavioral response studies. This information on prey will be used to provide insight regarding the movement patterns and foraging behaviors of the whales, and will help to elucidate how changes in whale behavior can be accounted for by changes in the distribution and abundance of their prey and/or by the presence of human sounds.