Disturbance-specific social responses in long-finned pilot whales, Globicephala melas

Social interactions among animals can influence their response to disturbance. We investigated responses of long-finned pilot whales to killer whale sound playbacks and two anthropogenic sources of disturbance: tagging effort and naval sonar exposure.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Visser, Fleur, Curé, Charlotte, Kvadsheim, Petter Helgevold, Lam, Frans-Peter Alexander, Tyack, Peter Lloyd, Miller, Patrick James O'Malley
Other Authors: Unité Mixte de Recherche en Acoustique Environnementale (UMRAE), Université de Lyon-Centre d'Etudes et d'Expertise sur les Risques, l'Environnement, la Mobilité et l'Aménagement (Cerema)-Université Gustave Eiffel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2016
Subjects:
ACLI
Cerema
Impact
international
[PHYS.MECA.ACOU]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Acoustics [physics.class-ph]
Killer Whale
Killer whale
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-02915541
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep28641
Description
Summary:Social interactions among animals can influence their response to disturbance. We investigated responses of long-finned pilot whales to killer whale sound playbacks and two anthropogenic sources of disturbance: tagging effort and naval sonar exposure.

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