North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) ignore ships but respond to alerting stimuli

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1536, 2004, Pages 227-231

  Nowacek, Douglas P ^a,b   Johnson, Mark P ^a   Tyack, Peter L ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled exposure experiment; Eubalaena gladalis; Ship strike

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSERVATION; MORTALITY; SHIPPING; WHALE;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS; EXPOSURE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RISK FACTOR; SENSOR; SHIP; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWIMMING; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANIMALIA; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; EUBALAENA; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS;

EID: 1042302716     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2570     Document Type: Article

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