High-amplitude impulsive sounds produced by pile driving and airguns may result in hearing damage in nearby seals. By swimming at the water surface, seals may reduce...
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Safety criteria for underwater sounds from offshore pile driving are needed to protect marine mammals. As a first step toward understanding effects of impulsive sounds, two...
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The underwater hearing sensitivities of two 2-year-old female harbor seals were quantified in a pool built for acoustic research by using a behavioral psycho-acoustic technique. The...
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Harbor seals may suffer hearing loss due to intense sounds. After exposure for 60-min to a continuous 6.5kHz tone at sound pressure levels of 123–159 dB...
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Temporary hearing threshold shifts (TTSs) were investigated in two adult female harbor seals after exposure for 60min to a continuous one-sixth-octave noise band centered at 16kHz...
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