Scoring of the severity of sperm whale behavioral responses to pulsed and continuous active sonar signals

Charlotte Cure (1) , Saana Isojunno (2) , Marije Siemensma , Paul Jacobus Wensveen (2) , L. Sivle , Rune Hansen , P. Kvadsheim , Frans-Peter Lann , Patrick Miller , Benjamin Benti (1)

1 UMRAE - Unité Mixte de Recherche en Acoustique Environnementale
2 University of St Andrews [Scotland]

This study investigates how naval sonar affects sperm whales' behavior. In previous work, we showed that controlled exposure experiments (CEEs) of 1-2 kHz pulsed active sonar (PAS) induced costly behavioral responses in whales (e.g. cessation of feeding), similar to anti-predator responses.

Keywords: CEREMA; C-ACTI; IMPACT; BIOACOUSTIQUE; INTERNATIONAL

Keywords: ACOUSTIQUE; OCEAN; SONAR

Domains: Acoustics [physics.class-ph]

Charlotte Cure, Saana Isojunno, Marije Siemensma, Paul Jacobus Wensveen, L. Sivle, et al.. Scoring of the severity of sperm whale behavioral responses to pulsed and continuous active sonar signals. Proceeding of WMMC 2019, Dec 2019, BARCELONE, Spain. ⟨hal-03616882⟩