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How man-made interference might cause gas bubble emboli in deep diving whales

Recent cetacean mass strandings in close temporal and spatial association with sonar activity has raised the concern that anthropogenic sound may harm breath-hold diving marine mammals. Necropsy results of the stranded whales have shown evidence of bubbles in the tissues, similar to those in human d...

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Autores principales: Fahlman, Andreas, Tyack, Peter L., Miller, Patrick J. O., Kvadsheim, Petter H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3904108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24478724
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2014.00013