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Using Sound to Influence the Behavior of Free-Ranging Marine Animals

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Behavior of Marine Animals

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The study of animal behavior holds many fascinations, but probably no aspect is more rewarding to its students than controlling, by appropriate stimuli, specific activities of free-ranging animals. The excitement that such work brings with it, especially when dealing with animals in the sea, stems in large part from the feeling that one has “tuned in” on an important line of communication with an animal on its terms—in an environment far different from that experienced by the researcher working under controlled laboratory conditions. It certainly is not my intent here to belittle laboratory studies; in fact, such studies often form the basis for work undertaken in the field. I am certain that much of our present knowledge about controlling the behavior of certain cetaceans and fishes rests, in large part, on the many hours of observation and experimentation that have been carried out on captive animals, held either in aquaria or in large enclosures. This will, I hope, become evident later in this chapter. Yet such results are not ends in themselves, although they may appear so at times. The control of overt behavior under field conditions will often serve to demonstrate that a hypothesis—set forth by preliminary observations, correlative analyses, and models of predictability—can increase our understanding of the activities of a given species in its natural environment, be it a coral reef, a grass flat, or a wide expanse of open sea.

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    Arthur A. Myrberg Jr.

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  1. Narragansett Marine Laboratory, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA

    Howard E. Winn (Professor of Oceanography and Zoology) (Professor of Oceanography and Zoology)

  2. U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service, Laboratory for Environmental Relations of Fishes, North Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Research Center, Highlands, New Jersey, USA

    Bori L. Olla (Head, Behavior Department) (Head, Behavior Department)

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Myrberg, A.A. (1972). Using Sound to Influence the Behavior of Free-Ranging Marine Animals. In: Winn, H.E., Olla, B.L. (eds) Behavior of Marine Animals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0910-9_7

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