Disturbance-specific social responses in long-finned pilot whales, Globicephala melas

Fleur Visser , Charlotte Curé (1) , Petter Helgevold Kvadsheim , Frans-Peter Alexander Lam , Peter Lloyd Tyack , Patrick James O'Malley Miller

1 UMRAE - Unité Mixte de Recherche en Acoustique Environnementale

Social interactions among animals can influence their response to disturbance. We investigated responses of long-finned pilot whales to killer whale sound playbacks and two anthropogenic sources of disturbance: tagging effort and naval sonar exposure.

Mots clés: ACLI; Cerema; Impact; international

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]

Fleur Visser, Charlotte Curé, Petter Helgevold Kvadsheim, Frans-Peter Alexander Lam, Peter Lloyd Tyack, et al.. Disturbance-specific social responses in long-finned pilot whales, Globicephala melas. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, pp.28641. ⟨10.1038/srep28641⟩. ⟨hal-02915541⟩