Whale watching is a multi-billion $ industry worldwide, & has developed into a very successful & much needed non-invasive commercial alternative to whaling. However, mounting evidence suggests that short term behavioral responses can translate into fitness consequences...(1/n)
...for heavily targeted individuals & populations, calling for guidelines that can ensure sustainable #ecotourism. All current guidelines focus on range, speed & approach aspect while ignoring the elephant in the room: that #noise from the approaching vessel very likely is..(2/n)
...the primary driver of behavioral disruptions. In an elegant test of this, @KateSprogis & @SimoneVidesen use controlled exposures of mother-calf pairs of #humpback #whales to show that vessel noise level indeed IS the driver of disturbance, and that noise emission...(3/n)
...standards should be implemented along existing guidelines for the #whalewatching fleets of the world.

Read her kick ass paper here: https://marinebioacoustics.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/sprogis-et-al-2020.pdf
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