Review of low-level bioacoustic behavior in wild cetaceans: conservation implications of possible sleeping behavior

Andrew J. Wright, Tomonari Akamatsu, Kim Nørgaard Mouritsen, Signe Sveegaard, Rune Dietz, Jonas Teilmann

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Abstract

Shallow, low-activity, low-biosonar parabolic-shaped dives were observed in biologging data from tagged harbor porpoises in Danish waters and identified as potential sleeping behavior. This behavioral state merits consideration in assessing the context for noise exposure and passive acoustic monitoring studies. Similar dives have also been reported for other cetacean species. The existence of low-level bioacoustic dives that may represent that sleeping has implications for the mitigation of not only noise exposure but also of bycatch as well as legal repercussions given the protected status of sleeping, as a part of resting, under many legislative regimes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Experimental Medicine and Biology : The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II
EditorsA.N. Popper, A. Hawkins
Number of pages8
Place of publicationNew York
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2016
Pages1251-1258
Chapter157
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
SeriesAdvances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
Volume875
ISSN0065-2598

Keywords

  • Bycatch
  • Context
  • Noise exposure
  • Passive acoustic monitoring
  • Response

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