North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) ignore ships but respond to alerting stimuli
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ftwhoas:oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/248 2023-05-15T16:08:16+02:00 North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) ignore ships but respond to alerting stimuli Nowacek, Douglas P. Johnson, Mark P. Tyack, Peter L. 2003-12-03 206704 bytes application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1912/248 en eng Royal Society https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2570 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271 (2004): 227-231 https://hdl.handle.net/1912/248 doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2570 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271 (2004): 227-231 doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2570 Eubalaena glacialis Ship-strike Controlled exposure experiment Article 2003 ftwhoas https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2570 2022-05-28T22:56:47Z Author Posting. © Royal Society, 2004. This article is posted here by permission of Royal Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271 (2004): 227-231, doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2570. North Atlantic right whales were extensively hunted during the whaling era and have not recovered. One of the primary factors inhibiting their recovery is anthropogenic mortality caused by ship strikes. To assess risk factors involved in ship strikes, we used a multi-sensor acoustic recording tag to measure the responses of whales to passing ships and experimentally tested their responses to controlled sound exposures, which included recordings of ship noise, the social sounds of conspecifics and a signal designed to alert the whales. The whales reacted strongly to the alert signal, they reacted mildly to the social sounds of conspecifics, but they showed no such responses to the sounds of approaching vessels as well as actual vessels. Whales responded to the alert by swimming strongly to the surface, a response likely to increase rather than decrease the risk of collision. Funding for this work was provided by the Fisheries Service of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (contract no. NA87RJ0445), and was conducted under NOAA Fisheries permit to conduct scientific research no. 1014 issued to Dr Scott Kraus and Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans permits 2001-559 and 2002-568. Article in Journal/Newspaper Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic Woods Hole Scientific Community: WHOAS (Woods Hole Open Access Server) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 271 1536 227 231 |
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Author Posting. © Royal Society, 2004. This article is posted here by permission of Royal Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271 (2004): 227-231, doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2570. North Atlantic right whales were extensively hunted during the whaling era and have not recovered. One of the primary factors inhibiting their recovery is anthropogenic mortality caused by ship strikes. To assess risk factors involved in ship strikes, we used a multi-sensor acoustic recording tag to measure the responses of whales to passing ships and experimentally tested their responses to controlled sound exposures, which included recordings of ship noise, the social sounds of conspecifics and a signal designed to alert the whales. The whales reacted strongly to the alert signal, they reacted mildly to the social sounds of conspecifics, but they showed no such responses to the sounds of approaching vessels as well as actual vessels. Whales responded to the alert by swimming strongly to the surface, a response likely to increase rather than decrease the risk of collision. Funding for this work was provided by the Fisheries Service of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (contract no. NA87RJ0445), and was conducted under NOAA Fisheries permit to conduct scientific research no. 1014 issued to Dr Scott Kraus and Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans permits 2001-559 and 2002-568. |
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North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) ignore ships but respond to alerting stimuli |
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North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) ignore ships but respond to alerting stimuli |
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North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) ignore ships but respond to alerting stimuli |
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