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Naval sonar disrupts foraging in humpback whales

2016
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Marine Ecology Progress Series

Sivle, L., Wensveen, P., Kvadsheim, P., Lam, F., Visser, F., Curé, C., Harris, C., Tyack, P. and Miller, P.

Modern long-range naval sonars are a potential disturbance for marine mammals and can cause disruption of feeding in cetaceans. We examined the lunge-feeding behaviour of humpback...
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Keywords: Behavioural response, Humpack whale, Lunge feeding, Megaptera novaeangliae, Naval sonar