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The intriguing sound of marine mammals

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Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean.

Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean.

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Peter Tyack

Behavioral ecologist

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Peter Tyack studies the social behavior and acoustic communication in whales and dolphins, learning how these animals use sound to perform critical activities, such as mating and locating food.

Peter Tyack and Vincent Janik | in Animal Communication and Noise, Henrik Brumm (Editor) Springer, 2013 | Article

Effects of Noise on Acoustic Signal Production in Marine Animals

Peter Tyack et al. | PLOS One, March 14, 2011 | Article

Beaked whales respond to simulated and actual Navy sonar

Peter Tyack | Physics Today, November 2009 | Article

Human-generated sound and marine mammals

Ian L. Boyd et al. | Oceanography, 2011 | Article

An International Quiet Ocean Experiment

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