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Assessing Beaked Whale Reproduction and Stress Response Relative to Sonar Activity at the Atlantic Undersea Test & Evaluation Center (AUTEC)

Open Access Report

Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation

Diane Claridge, Nick Kellar, John W. Durban

Atypical mass strandings and behavioral responses of beaked whales have been correlated with exposure to naval sonar (e.g. Simmonds and Lopez-Juraco 1991; Frantzis 1998; Evans and...
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Keywords: Beaked whales, Naval sonar

Naval sonar disrupts foraging in humpback whales

2016
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

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