Beaked whales, sperm whales, pilot whales, and Risso's dolphins perform deep dives to feed on prey in the deep sea. They use echolocation to detect prey, and echolocation can be monitor as a proxy of their foraging activities. Ecological acoustic recorders were deployed to monitor in time the echolocation signals of pilot whales, Risso's dolphins, beaked whales, and sperm whales near Josephine Seamount (Portugal), in the Ligurian Sea (Italy), and along the Kona coast of the island of Hawaii. Data analysis was performed using two automatic detector/classification systems: Marine Mammal Monitoring on Navy Ranges (M3R), developed at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division in Newport, USA, and a custom MATLAB program. An operator-supervised custom MATLAB program was used to validate the classification performance, which was higher than 85% for each category. Results show that pilot whales and Risso's dolphins concentrate their feeding effort mainly during the night. The foraging activity of beaked and sperm whales is variable, and different patterns are observed at different locations. Prey behavior might play a central role in driving the foraging activity of deep divers, but to date, the reasons why such activity varies between species that might feed on similar food resources remains unknown.
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November 01 2013
Long term passive acoustics monitoring reveals differences in deep diving Odontocetes foraging strategies
Giacomo Giorli;
Giacomo Giorli
Dept. of Oceanogr., Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, 1000 Pope Rd., Honolulu, HI 96822, [email protected]
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Whitlow W. Au
Whitlow W. Au
Hawaii Inst. of Marine Biol., Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 134, 3972 (2013)
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Giacomo Giorli, Whitlow W. Au; Long term passive acoustics monitoring reveals differences in deep diving Odontocetes foraging strategies. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 November 2013; 134 (5_Supplement): 3972. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4830470
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