Ceteacean Social Behavioral Response to Sonar

Abstract

The goal of this effort is to investigate cetacean social behavioral response to sonar signals. The scientific objectives of this effort are 1) to study social, group-level behavioral responses of cetaceans to sonar signals and other stimuli, including tagging; 2) to study natural, baseline social behavior of the cetaceans studied; 3) to develop quantitative, generic methods and protocols for the study of social, group-level behavior of cetaceans; 4) to develop methods to study behavioral responses of cetaceans to sonar signals in situations where tagging is not at present possible (tagless playbacks); 5) to facilitate in the integration of methods and data from different behavioral response studies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2012
Accession Number
ADA578417

Entities

People

  • Fleur Visser

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • California
  • Cetaceans
  • Cooperation
  • Data Analysis
  • Fish
  • High Density
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Operations
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Netherlands
  • Odontocetes
  • Playback
  • Sampling
  • Sonar Signals
  • Whales

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Marine Mammal Biology