Intense ultrasonic clicks from echolocating toothed whales do not elicit anti-predator responses or debilitate the squid Loligo pealeii

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-227

  Wilson, Maria ^a   Hanlon, Roger T ^b   Tyack, Peter L ^c   Madsen, Peter T ^a,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Defence; Echolocation; Predation; Squid; Toothed whales

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MOLLUSC; PREDATION; WHALE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SQUID; TOOTHED WHALE; ULTRASOUND; WHALE; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; VOCALIZATION;

CEPHALOPODA; HEXAPODA; LOLIGO PEALEI; ODONTOCETI;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ECHOLOCATION; LOLIGO; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PRESSURE; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 38449087826     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0005     Document Type: Article

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