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First indications that northern bottlenose whales are sensitive to behavioural disturbance from anthropogenic noise.

2015
Open Access Journal Article

Royal Society Open Science

Miller, P. J. O., Kvadsheim P. H., Lam F-P.A., Tyack P. L., Cure C, Deruiter S. L., Kleivane L., Sivle L. D., van IJsselmuide S. P., Visser F., Wensveen P. J., Von Benda-Beckmann A. M., Lopez L. M. Martin, Narazaki T., and Hooker S. K.

Although northern bottlenose whales were the most heavily hunted beaked whale, we have little information about this species in its remote habitat of the North Atlantic...
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Keywords: Bottlenose whales, Marine industrialization, Naval activity, Noise disturbance, Sensitivity, Underwater anthropogenic noise