How Whales And Other Marine Mammals React To Sonar

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Fri, 08/08/2008 - 23:30

Marine biologists have just completed a pioneering research effort in Hawaii to measure the biology and behavior of some of the most poorly understood whales on Earth.

During the study, for the first time, scientists attached listening and movement sensors on marine mammals around realistic military operations.

  


 

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