Los Angeles: University of California, 1963: 43. Endanger. One particularly enlightening study, on gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus), predicted that an energy loss of 4% because of disturbance events during the year of pregnancy would result in reproductive failure (Villegas-Amtmann, et al., 2015). Manag. Even at this late date, the methods used to create acoustic energy for echolocation purposes are not completely understood.
(2015) determined that Northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) showed a “high sensitivity … to acoustic disturbance, with consequent risk from marine industrialization and naval activity” (p. 1). Subsequently, Sivle et al. National Marine Fisheries Service (2016). Subsequently, in 2014, five Cuvier's beaked whales stranded on the coast of Crete during the Noble Dina 2014 joint exercise with the Israeli, Greek and US Navies (Dolman, 2014). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The mid-frequency sonar was developed for anti-submarine warfare against these future boats. Minke and blue whales may not be the only baleen whales that are vulnerable. Pollut.

Conserv. Severity of expert-identified behavioural responses of humpback whale, minke whale and northern bottlenose whale to naval sonar.

Such studies are “likely not directly transferrable to conspecifics in the wild. Decline in relative abundance of bottlenose dolphins exposed to long-term disturbance. A number of studies suggest population-level impacts in beaked whales from repeated exposures to naval activities (Dolman and Jasny, 2015).

Biodivers. Allison, P. A., Smith, C. R., Kukert, H., Jody, W., Deming, J. W., and Bennett, B. Bull. It is this melon that sits above the beak of the dolphin in a conformal dome and gives the dolphin's head its distinctive shape. The dolphin has the added ability to measure the depths of targets acoustically as if they were translucent in the visual regime. In all of these occurrences, there were other contributing factors, such as unusual (steep and complex) underwater geography, limited egress routes, and a specific species of marine mammal — beaked whales — that are suspected to be more sensitive to sound than other marine mammals. doi: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.00099-410.x, Tougaard, J., Wright, A. J., and Madsen, P. T. (2015). “Why marine conservation biology?” in Marine Conservation Biology, eds E. Norse and L.B. In the latter case, the fundamental tone of the signal is in the 4-20 kHz region.

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), pilot whales (Globicephala spp. Analysis of the overall auditory system of the dolphin suggests it "sees" in the acoustic range with a fidelity equal to that of humans in the visual range (except for the degree of spatial detail). doi: 10.3354/esr00820, Frantzis, A.

Available online at: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/43m7b2d5, Beale, C. M., and Monaghan, P. (2004).

Many militaries have committed to investigate and mitigate their activities to protect marine mammals.

It does this by employing an array of techniques not fully exploited outside of the biological sphere. J. Cetacean Res.

Front. Differences as great as four atmospheres may occur across this barrier. This was the first time that the US Government determined a stranding to be the result of mid-frequency active sonar use1 (Anonymous, 2001), although the link between naval exercise… One is a series of one or more short impulses of sound. The researchers found that in the area where dolphin-watching occurred, there was a significant decline in dolphin numbers (14%) linked to an increase in dolphin-watching activity (Bejder et al., 2006). To optimize its performance in its environmental niche, the dolphin has evolved a pneumatic system that is entirely separate from its gastronomic system. The radiating field pattern of the bottlenose dolphin has been measured and is known to be very complex and to change rapidly with time. However, because of their aquatic environment, the dolphins have replaced the morphological structure commonly known as the outer ear (the pinna) by an entirely different structure consisting of a conformal variable-density lens-type receiving system (antenna) that provides excellent forward and omnidirectional performance without slowing the swimming velocity of the animal.


Siggins, L. (2015, February 24). Perrin's beaked whale (Mesoplodon perrini; Dalebout, 2002) was only discovered recently, and confirmed sightings of a living individual have yet to be made in the wild, despite the species inhabiting the waters off California, one of the most surveyed regions in the US and the world, with probably one of the greatest densities of marine mammal biologists in the country. After that the acoustic energy in mid or high-frequency sound is converted into heat, primarily by the epsom salt dissolved in sea water. Bull.

The Dolphin in History. (Faerber and Baird, (2010, p. 610) stated that “it is inappropriate to conclude there has been no impact on beaked whales from anthropogenic activity in the Hawaiian Islands.” This conclusion could be extrapolated to any location where coastal features make strandings unlikely, or unobservable, or locations where there is a lack of public awareness about the need to report stranded cetaceans so necropsies can be done, or a lack of search effort for cetacean carcasses, at sea or beached, during active sonar exercises. Impact Factor 3.661 | CiteScore 4.4More on impact ›, Acoustical Impact of Ships and Harbours: Airborne and Underwater N&V Pollution doi: 10.2307/1542430, Christiansen, F., Rasmussen, M. H., and Lusseau, D. (2013). The idea of acoustically enhanced bubble formation was first raised by a paper published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America in 1996[28] and again Nature in 2003. Prog.