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Title: Belukha whale (delphinapterus leucas) responses to industrial noise in Nushagak Bay, Alaska: 1983

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6180690

Between 15 June and 14 July 1983 the authors conducted playback experiments with belukha whales in the Snake River, Alaska, using sounds recorded near an operating oil-drilling rig. The objectives of these experiments were to quantify behavioral responses of belukha whales to oil drilling noise in an area where foreign acoustic stimuli were absent, and to test the hypothesis that beluhka whales would not approach a source of loud sound.

Research Organization:
National Ocean Service, Anchorage, AK (USA). Ocean Assessments Div.
OSTI ID:
6180690
Report Number(s):
PB-87-192217/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English