Posted by: keenebp | February 15, 2012

Interesting article link: “Whales Stressed By Ship Noise, Research Suggests”

This Noise article doesn’t have to do with the building industry we are involved with, but I thought this was interesting to post on here.

“Quiet oceans make for calmer right whales, new research suggests. When fewer ships sail the Bay of Fundy, the big baleen whales are less stressed — as evidenced by hormone levels… This stress could be one reason the North Atlantic population of right whales, which spend part of their lives in the Bay of Fundy off the East Coast, is having such a hard time reproducing. If the sounds chronically stress them, they could be more prone to disease and it could possibly interfere with their ability to reproduce, the researchers say.”

Read more by clicking on the link below!

Whales Stressed By Ship Noise, Research Suggests

HuffingtonPost.com

By: Jennifer Welsh

February 9, 2012

 

READ MORE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/whales-ship-noise-stress_n_1266590.html

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