Aquatic Mammals (2014)
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Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) presence patterns at an aquaculture cage site in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
Haarr, Marthe L.; Charlton, Laura D.; Terhune, John M.; Trippel, Edward A.
Aquatic Mammals (2009)
Finfish aquaculture is a prominent industry in the Bay of Fundy, Canada. The distribution of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the Bay during the summer and fall may be impacted…
Echolocation rates of two harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
Akamatsu, Tomonari; Hatakeyama, Yoshimi; Kojima, Takahito; Soeda, Hideo
Marine Mammal Sci (1994)
The rate of occurrence of click trains of two harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) were counted during 14 nights. We developed an echolocation signal detection system that was harnessed to a…
Target discrimination by an echolocating finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides
Nakahara, Fumio; Takemura, Akira; Koido, Takashi; Hiruda, Hisoka
Marine Mammal Sci (1997)
The ability of a finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) to discriminate the material and size of a target by echolocation was investigated. The porpoise was required to choose a standard target…
Reactions of captive harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) to pinger-like sounds
Teilmann, Jonas; Tougaard, Jakob; Miller, Lee A.; Kirketerp, Tim; Hansen, Kirstin; Brando, Sabrina
Marine Mammal Sci (2006)
Pingers on gill nets can reduce bycatch of harbor porpoises. If harbor porpoises habituate to pingers, the effect may be reduced or lost. Two captive harbor porpoises were exposed to…
Do man-made structures and water depth affect the diel rhythms in click recordings of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)?
Brandt, Miriam J.; Hansen, Sophie; Diederichs, Ansgar; Nehls, Georg
Mar Mam Sci (2014)
The construction of industrial offshore structures may lead to colonization by a variety of marine organisms resulting in locally enhanced biodiversity and biomass, which may then affect the habitat use…
Biosonar, dive, and foraging activity of satellite tracked harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
Linnenschmidt, Meike; Teilmann, Jonas; Akamatsu, Tomonari; Dietz, Rune; Miller, Lee A.
Mar Mam Sci (2012)
This study presents bioacoustic recordings in combination with movements and diving behavior of three free-ranging harbor porpoises (a female and two males) in Danish waters. Each porpoise was equipped with…
Morphology of the odontocete melon and its implications for acoustic function
McKenna, Megan F.; Cranford, Ted W.; Berta, Annalisa; Pyenson, Nicholas D.
Marine Mammal Science (2011)
Toothed whales (crown Odontoceti) are unique among mammals in their ability to echolocate underwater, using specialized tissue structures. The melon, a structure composed of fat and connective tissue, is an…
Synthetic communication signals influence wild harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) behaviour
Culik, Boris; von Dorrien, Christian; Müller, Vailett; Conrad, Matthias
Bioacoustics (2015)
We used our novel and programmable Porpoise Alarm (PAL, patd.) to synthesize life-like, electronic harbour porpoise communication signals based on those described for captive animals. In the Little Belt, Denmark,…
Diel echolocation activity of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) around North Sea offshore gas installations
Todd, V. L. G.; Pearse, W. D.; Tregenza, N. C.; Lepper, P. A.; Todd, I. B.
ICES Journal of Marine Science (2009)
Echolocation clicks of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) were detected with T-PODs, autonomous, passive, acoustic-monitoring devices, deployed from an offshore-exploration-drilling-rig and gas-production-platform complex in the Dogger Bank region of the North…