Journal of Experimental Biology (2010)
Echolocating toothed whales produce high-powered clicks by pneumatic actuation of phonic lips in their nasal complexes. All non-physeteroid toothed whales have two pairs of phonic lips allowing many of these…
Click communication in harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena
Clausen, K. T.; Wahlberg, M.; Beedholm, K.; Deruiter, S.; Madsen, P. T.
Bioacoustics (2010)
Sound plays an important role for toothed whales in foraging and communication. However, little is known about acoustic communication in the toothed whale species that only produce narrow band high…
Passive acoustic monitoring of bottlenose dolphin and harbour porpoise, in Cardigan Bay, Wales, with implications for habitat use and partitioning
Simon, Malene; Nuuttila, Hanna; Reyes-Zamudio, Mercedes M.; Ugarte, Fernando; Verfub, Ursula; Evans, Peter G.H.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (2010)
Knowledge about harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin occurrence in Cardigan Bay Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Wales, is limited to daylight hours during summer, when conditions are suitable for traditional…
Propagation of narrow-band-high-frequency clicks: Measured and modeled transmission loss of porpoise-like clicks in porpoise habitats
DeRuiter, Stacy L.; Hansen, Michael; Koopman, Heather N.; Westgate, Andrew J.; Tyack, Peter L.; Madsen, Peter T.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2010)
Estimating the range at which harbor porpoises can detect prey items and environmental objects is integral to understanding their biosonar. Understanding the ranges at which they can use echolocation to…
Using T-PODs to assess variations in the occurrence of coastal bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises
Bailey, Helen; Clay, Gemma; Coates, Elizabeth A.; Lusseau, David; Senior, Bridget; Thompson, Paul M.
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (2010)
1. Assessments of anthropogenic impacts on cetaceans are often constrained by limited data on the extent to which these species use particular areas. 2. Timing porpoise detectors (T-PODs) are autonomous…
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…
Changes in click source levels with distance to targets: Studies of free-ranging white-beaked dolphins Lagenorhynchus albirostris and captive harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena
Atem, Ana Carolina G.; Rasmussen, Marianne H.; Wahlberg, Magnus; Petersen, Hans C.; Miller, Lee A.;
Bioacoustics (2009)
Probably all odontocetes use echolocation for spatial orientation and detection of prey. We used a four hydrophone “Y” array to record the high frequency clicks from free-ranging White-beaked Dolphins Lagenorhynchus…
Functional morphology of the nasal complex in the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena L.)
Huggenberger, Stefan; Rauschmann, Michael A.; Vogl, Thomas J.; Oelschläger, Helmut H. A.
Anatomical Record (2009)
Toothed whales (Odontoceti, Cetacea) are the only aquatic mammals known to echolocate, and probably all of them are able to produce click sounds and to synthesize their echoes into a…
Acoustic basis for fish prey discrimination by echolocating dolphins and porpoises
Au, Whitlow W. L.; Branstetter, Brian K.; Benoit-Bird, Kelly J.; Kastelein, Ronald A.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2009)
The biosonar system of dolphins and porpoises has been studied for about 5 decades and much has been learned [Au, W. W. L. (1993). The Sonar of Dolphins (Springer, New…
Scanning sonar of rolling porpoises during prey capture dives
Akamatsu, T.; Wang, D.; Wang, K.; Li, S.; Dong, S.
Journal of Experimental Biology (2009)
Dolphins and porpoises have excellent biosonar ability, which they use for navigation, ranging and foraging. However, the role of biosonar in free-ranging small cetaceans has not been fully investigated. The…