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SUBMITTER: Miller PJO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9060435 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miller Patrick J O PJO Isojunno Saana S Siegal Eilidh E Lam Frans-Peter A FA Kvadsheim Petter H PH Curé Charlotte C
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220321 13
SignificanceAcoustic signals travel efficiently in the marine environment, allowing soniferous predators and prey to eavesdrop on each other. Our results with four cetacean species indicate that they use acoustic information to assess predation risk and have evolved mechanisms to reduce predation risk by ceasing foraging. Species that more readily gave up foraging in response to predatory sounds of killer whales also decreased foraging more during 1- to 4-kHz sonar exposures, indicating that spe ...[more]