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Nighttime foraging by deep diving echolocating odontocetes off the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Ni’ihau as determined by passive acoustic monitors
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Nighttime foraging by deep diving echolocating odontocetes off the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Ni’ihau as determined by passive acoustic monitors |
| Names |
Au, Whitlow W. L.
(creator) Giorli, Giacomo (creator) Chen, Jessica (creator) Copeland, Adrienne (creator) Lammers, Marc (creator) Richlen, Michael (creator) Jarvis, Susan (creator) Morrissey, Ronald (creator) Moretti, David (creator) Klinck, Holger (creator) |
| Date Issued | 2013-05 (iso8601) |
| Note | To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this paper were federal employees when contributing to this work. This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by Acoustical Society of America and can be found at: http://acousticalsociety.org/. |
| Abstract | Remote autonomous ecological acoustic recorders (EARs) were deployed in deep waters at five locations around the island of Kauai and one in waters off Ni'ihau in the main Hawaiian island chain. The EARs were moored to the bottom at depths between 400 and 800 m. The data acquisition sampling rate was 80 kHz and acoustic signals were recorded for 30 s every 5 min to conserve battery power and disk space. The acoustic data were analyzed with the M3R (Marine Mammal Monitoring on Navy Ranges) software, an energy-ratio-mapping algorithm developed at Oregon State University and custom MATLAB programs. A variety of deep diving odontocetes, including pilot whales, Risso's dolphins, sperm whales, spinner and pan-tropical spotted dolphins, and beaked whales were detected at all sites. Foraging activity typically began to increase after dusk, peaked in the middle of the night and began to decrease toward dawn. Between 70% and 84% of biosonar clicks were detected at night. At present it is not clear why some of the known deep diving species, such as sperm whales and beaked whales, concentrate their foraging efforts at night. (C) 2013 Acoustical Society of America. |
| Genre | Article |
| Topic | Finned pilot whales |
| Identifier | Au, W. W. L., Klinck, H., Giorli, G., Chen, J., Copeland, A., Lammers, M., . . . Moretti, D. (2013). Nighttime foraging by deep diving echolocating odontocetes off the hawaiian islands of kauai and ni'ihau as determined by passive acoustic monitors. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(5), 3119-3127. doi:10.1121/1.4798360 |
