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Au, Whitlow W. L.
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Giorli, Giacomo
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Chen, Jessica
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Copeland, Adrienne
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Lammers, Marc
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Richlen, Michael
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Jarvis, Susan
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Morrissey, Ronald
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Moretti, David
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Klinck, Holger
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- 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.
- Keywords: Cross seamount,
Signals,
Clicks,
Finned pilot whales,
Beaked whales,
Rissos dolphin,
Temporal patterns,
Mesoplodon densirostris,
Behavior,
Sound
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- 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
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- This work was supported by Office of Naval Research grants N00014-08-1-0903 and N000141210271 to W.A. (Michael Weise, program manager). H.K. was supported by Naval Postgraduate School grants N00244-08-1-0029, N00244-09-1-0079, and N00244-10-1-0047 (Robert Gisiner and Frank Stone, program managers), and Office of Naval Research grants N00014-08-1-1082, N00014-10-1-0387, and N00014-08-1-1198 (Michael Weise, program manager).
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