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    North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) ignore ships but respond to alerting stimuli

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    Date
    2003-12-03
    Author
    Nowacek, Douglas P.  Concept link
    Johnson, Mark P.  Concept link
    Tyack, Peter L.  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/248
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2570
    DOI
    10.1098/rspb.2003.2570
    Keyword
     Eubalaena glacialis; Ship-strike; Controlled exposure experiment 
    Abstract
    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.
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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.
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    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271 (2004): 227-231
     

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