Gas-bubble lesions in stranded cetaceans
| Autor: | Manuel Arbelo, A. Espinosa, F. E. Howie, J.R. Baker, Pedro Herráez, I. A. P. Patterson, Vidal Martín, H. M. Ross, Pedro Castro, E. Degollada, Andrew A. Cunningham, Paul Jepson, Antonio Fernández, Rob Deaville, Francisco Rodríguez, José Raduan Jaber, A. M. Pocknell, R. J. Reid |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Gas bubble
Dolphins Porpoises Biology Sonar Decompression sickness biology.animal Tissue damage medicine Animals Atlantic Ocean Multidisciplinary Whale Whales Decompression Sickness medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Ziphius cavirostris Mesoplodon densirostris Fishery Military Science Sound Liver Environmental regulation Cetacea Gases |
| Zdroj: | Nature. 425:575-576 |
| ISSN: | 1476-4687 0028-0836 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/425575a |
| Popis: | Was sonar responsible for a spate of whale deaths after an Atlantic military exercise? There are spatial and temporal links between some mass strandings of cetaceans — predominantly beaked whales — and the deployment of military sonar1,2,3. Here we present evidence of acute and chronic tissue damage in stranded cetaceans that results from the formation in vivo of gas bubbles, challenging the view that these mammals do not suffer decompression sickness. The incidence of such cases during a naval sonar exercise indicates that acoustic factors could be important in the aetiology of bubble-related disease and may call for further environmental regulation of such activity. |
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