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| Title |
Echolocation by the harbour porpoise: life in coastal waters
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Physiology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fphys.2013.00052 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lee A. Miller, Magnus Wahlberg |
| Abstract |
The harbor porpoise is one of the smallest and most widely spread of all toothed whales. They are found abundantly in coastal waters all around the northern hemisphere. They are among the 11 species known to use high frequency sonar of relative narrow bandwidth. Their narrow biosonar beam helps isolate echoes from prey among those from unwanted items and noise. Obtaining echoes from small objects like net mesh, net floats, and small prey is facilitated by the very high peak frequency around 130 kHz with a wavelength of about 12 mm. We argue that such echolocation signals and narrow band auditory filters give the harbor porpoise a selective advantage in a coastal environment. Predation by killer whales and a minimum noise region in the ocean around 130 kHz may have provided selection pressures for using narrow bandwidth high frequency biosonar signals. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
| France | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 116 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 112 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 25 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 12% |
| Other | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 9% |
| Other | 12 | 10% |
| Unknown | 26 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 47 | 41% |
| Environmental Science | 28 | 24% |
| Engineering | 4 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Linguistics | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 4% |
| Unknown | 29 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 November 2023.
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#4,967
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#9
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