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Jessica J. Sportelli, Kelly M. Heimann and Brittany L. Jones
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) rely on frequency- and amplitude-modulated whistles to communicate, and noise exposure can inhibit the success of acoustic communication through masking or causing behavioral changes in the animal. At the US Navy ...
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Kwang-Ming Liu, Kuan-Yu Su and Chien-Pang Chin
Cetacean and shark depredations in a small-scale longline fishery in the southeastern Taiwan waters were estimated based on interviews of 21 fishermen and logbooks of 12 sampling vessels, including 649 operations (681,310 hooks) from October 2009 to Dece...
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Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Johan Gustafon and David E. Cade
Cetaceans are known for their intelligence and display of complex behaviours including object use. For example, bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) are known to rub on rocks and some humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) populations undertake lateral b...
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Silvana Neves, Yann Doh, Simona Sacchini, Eric Delory, Antonio Fernández and Ayoze Castro-Alonso
The MARCET project (MAC/1.1b/149) aims to monitor the health status of resident cetaceans in Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) of particular interest for whale-watching in Macaronesia. This study, performed in the Canary Islands, Spain, used an autono...
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Chien-Pang Chin, Kuan-Yu Su and Kwang-Ming Liu
The northeastern waters of Guishan Island constitute one of the crucial fishing grounds for coastal trawl fishery in Taiwan and have been exploited for many decades. To construct the marine ecosystem and to examine the interactions among trophic levels o...
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Xiaoyu Huang, Mingming Liu, Samuel T. Turvey, Mingli Lin and Songhai Li
Marine mammals are a diverse group of aquatic animals that exhibit wide variation in body size, living conditions, breeding habitat, social behaviour and phylogeny. Although case studies about prenatal investment in cetaceans and pinnipeds have been inve...
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Jan-Olaf Meynecke and Hilla Kela
The use of objects by cetaceans is well known, and their ability to interact with their environment in complex behaviours has been demonstrated previously. However, baleen whales, including humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), are less often observe...
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Francesca Terranova, Alessandra Raffa, Stefano Floridia, Clara Monaco and Livio Favaro
Cetacean bycatch is increasing worldwide and poses a threat to the conservation of several delphinids. The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is frequently involved in bycatch incidents, due to its coastal distribution and opportunistic behaviour. T...
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Manuel Bou-Cabo, Guillermo Lara, Paula Gutiérrez-Muñoz, C. Saavedra, Ramón Miralles and Víctor Espinosa
Over the last decade, national authorities and European administrations have made great efforts to establish methodological standards for the assessment of underwater continuous noise, especially under the requirements set by the Marine Strategy Framewor...
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Giulia Cipriano, Francesca Cornelia Santacesaria, Carmelo Fanizza, Carla Cherubini, Roberto Crugliano, Rosalia Maglietta, Pasquale Ricci and Roberto Carlucci
This study aims to provide information on the site fidelity, residency patterns and the social structures of bottlenose dolphins occurring in the Gulf of Taranto in order to supply effective indications supporting the future management and conservation m...
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