Peter Tyack on Marine Mammals’ Struggle with Human Noise Pollution
Photo by mikebaird via Flickr Creative Commons Peter Tyack is dedicated to studying how sound impacts marine mammals. As we know, whales and dolphins rely on vocalization to find food and one another. Many species are able to hear each other over vast distances, locating one another to breed and migrate to feeding grounds. Their sensitivity to sound means that the human activity in the ocean — from the
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Peter Tyack on Marine Mammals’ Struggle with Human Noise Pollution
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