The impacts of anthropogenic ocean noise on cetaceans and implications for management

LS Weilgart - Canadian journal of zoology, 2007 - cdnsciencepub.com
Ocean noise pollution is of special concern for cetaceans, as they are highly dependent on
sound as their principal sense. Sound travels very efficiently underwater, so the potential …

Management and research applications of real-time and archival passive acoustic sensors over varying temporal and spatial scales

SM Van Parijs, CW Clark, RS Sousa-Lima… - Marine Ecology …, 2009 - int-res.com
Defining the appropriate scale over which to conduct a study in the marine environment is
critical to achieving appropriate scientific, management, mitigation and conservation …

Antioxidant activity of fresh apples

MV Eberhardt, CY Lee, RH Liu - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
Vitamin C is used as a dietary supplement because of its antioxidant activity, although a high
dose (500 mg) may act as a pro-oxidant in the body,. Here we show that 100 g of fresh …

Hydrodynamic design of the humpback whale flipper

FE Fish, JM Battle - Journal of morphology, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is reported to use its elongate pectoral
flippers during swimming maneuvers. The morphology of the flipper from a 9.02‐m whale …

Dynamic horizontal cultural transmission of humpback whale song at the ocean basin scale

EC Garland, AW Goldizen, ML Rekdahl, R Constantine… - Current biology, 2011 - cell.com
Cultural transmission, the social learning of information or behaviors from conspecifics [1–5],
is believed to occur in a number of groups of animals, including primates [1, 6–9], cetaceans …

Cultural revolution in whale songs

MJ Noad, DH Cato, MM Bryden, MN Jenner… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
The song patterns of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) depend on where they
live, with populations inhabiting different ocean basins normally singing quite distinct songs …

Large scale changes over 19 years in songs of humpback whales in Bermuda

K Payne, R Payne - Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 1985 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract and Summary 163 songs of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) recorded
near Bermuda during April and May of 13 years between 1957 and 1975 have been …

ORCA-SPOT: An automatic killer whale sound detection toolkit using deep learning

C Bergler, H Schröter, RX Cheng, V Barth, M Weber… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Large bioacoustic archives of wild animals are an important source to identify reappearing
communication patterns, which can then be related to recurring behavioral patterns to …

Male competition in large groups of wintering humpback whales

P Tyack, H Whitehead - Behaviour, 1982 - JSTOR
Fast moving groups containing three or more adult humpback whales are found in the winter
on Silver Bank in the West Indies, and off Hawaii. Many of these groups have a definite …

A stable binary quasicrystal

AP Tsai, JQ Guo, E Abe, H Takakura, TJ Sato - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
All stable quasicrystals known so far are composed of at least three metallic elements,,,.
Sixteen years after the discovery of the quasicrystal, we describe a stable binary …