When discussing the impacts of an accident between a ship and a marine mammal, we generally focus on the physical consequences of the collision. Often fatal for the cetacean, a ship strike can also lead to significant injuries and thus limit the animal\u2019s ability to swim, forage and\/or reproduce. But even if the whale physically recovers from this accident, could there be any psychological or behavioural repercussions?<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to answer these questions, as scientists do not yet quite know how to study emotions in cetaceans, let alone psychoanalyze them. However, thanks to rigorous long-term population monitoring, researchers have managed to identify changes in the social lives of injured individuals.<\/p>\n
This analytical work was carried out by Michelle Greenfield, a veterinary student at Cornell University, and researchers from the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program. Their results shed light on the impact that collisions can have on social relationships in bottlenose dolphins and thus provide us with the first elements of an answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When discussing the impacts of an accident between a ship and a marine mammal, we generally focus on the physical consequences of the collision. Often fatal for the cetacean, a ship strike can also lead to significant injuries and thus limit the animal\u2019s ability to swim, forage and\/or reproduce. But even if the whale physically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":52996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[583,1690,459,563,1691],"class_list":["post-53020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whale-qa","tag-behaviour","tag-boat-trafic","tag-collision-en","tag-dolphin","tag-social-life"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n