Interactions Among Behavioral Responses of Baleen Whales to Acoustic Stimuli, Oceanographic Features, and Prey Availability

Abstract

The current project obtained basic distribution and density information for prey concurrent with foraging mysticete cetaceans during behavioral response studies. This information on prey will be used to provide insight regarding the movement patterns and foraging behaviors of the whales, and will help to elucidate how changes in whale behavior can be accounted for by changes in the distribution and abundance of their prey and/or by the presence of human sounds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA599983

Entities

People

  • Ari S. Friedlaender

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animals
  • Availability
  • Cetaceans
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Ecology
  • Environment
  • High Resolution
  • Laptop Computers
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Measurement
  • Sampling
  • Seabed
  • Sonar
  • Whales

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Marine Mammal Biology