Porpoise entanglement recorded in real time, revealing calls and escape attempts
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A porpoise was searching for food off the coast of Britain when it caught up in a grid. Scientists were able to understand what happened by chance in detail.
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Porpoise entanglement recorded in real time, revealing calls and escape attempts
Researchers at the University of St Andrews have gained unprecedented insight into marine mammal behavior when they become tangled in fishing nets. In a paper published Aug. 26 in Royal Society Open Science, researchers from the Sea Mammal Research Unit and Scottish Oceans Institute at St Andrews discovered that their passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) systems, deployed on a gill net, had unintentionally recorded a bycatch event. This is thought …
A study shows by chance how a porpoise is caught in a network and sends emergency signals. What researchers derive from the analysis for the protection of animals.
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