Resumen de estudios que documentan las repercusiones de la observación de ballenas

Resumen de los estudios que documentan los efectos de la observación de ballenas en los individuos o las poblaciones de ballenas y delfines

Adaptado y actualizado de Parsons, 2012 [1] Última actualización: Julio 2018

Efecto	Especie	Referencia
Variación de la emersión/inmersión	Delfín mular común, Tursiops truncatus	[2-4]
	Delfín mular del Indo-Pacífico, Tursiops aduncus	[5, 6]
	Delfín jorobado del Indo-Pacífico, Sousa teuszii	[7]
	Costero, Sotalia guianensis	[8]
	Orca, Orcinus orca	[9]
	Ballena jorobada, Megaptera novaeangliae	[10]
	Rorcual común, Balaenoptera physalus	[11]
	Cachalote, Physeter macrocephalus	[12, 13]

Variación de la velocidad de nado	Delfín mular del Indo-Pacífico, Tursiops aduncus	[6]
	Delfín girador, Stenella longirostris	[14]
	Orca, Orcinus orca	[9, 15]
	Ballena jorobada, Megaptera novaeangliae	[16]

Variación de la dirección de nado	Delfín mular común, Tursiops truncatus	[17, 18]
	Delfín mular del Indo-Pacífico, Tursiops aduncus	[5]
	Delfín jorobado del Indo-Pacífico, Sousa teuszii	[7]
	Delfín girador, Stenella longirostris	[19, 20]
	Costero, Sotalia guianensis	[21]
	Orca, Orcinus orca	[9, 15, 22]
	Ballena jorobada, Megaptera novaeangliae	[23, 24]
	Ballena gris, Eschrichtius robustus	[25]
	Cachalote, Physeter macrocephalus	[13]

Aumento de los saltos, del golpeo de la cola	Delfín mular común, Tursiops truncatus	[26]
	Tonina overa, Cephalorhynchus commersonii	[27]
	Delfín girador, Stenella longirostris	[28]
	Orca, Orcinus orca	[29]
	Ballena jorobada, Megaptera novaeangliae	[23, 30]

Variación de la vocalización	Delfín mular común, Tursiops truncatus	[31-35]
	Orca, Orcinus orca	[36]
	Ballena jorobada, Megaptera novaeangliae	[37, 38]
	Cachalote, Physeter macrocephalus	[13]

Variación del tamaño o la cohesión del grupo	Delfín mular común, Tursiops truncatus	[17, 18, 34]
	Delfín mular del Indo-Pacífico, Tursiops aduncus	[39]
	Costero, Sotalia guianensis	[8]

Alteración de la alimentación o del descanso	Delfín mular común, Tursiops truncatus	[40-47]
	Delfín mular del Indo-Pacífico, Tursiops aduncus	[39, 48, 49]
	Delfín mular australiano, Tursiops australis	[50-52]
	Delfín común, Delphinus sp.	[53, 54]
	Costero, Sotalia guianensis	[55]
	Delfín oscuro, Lagenorhynchus obscurus	[27, 56, 57]
	Tonina overa, Cephalorhynchus commersonii	[27]
	Delfín de Risso, Grampus griseus	[58]
	Orca, Orcinus orca	[59, 60]
	Ballena jorobada, Megaptera novaeangliae	[61]
	Ballena Minke, Balaenoptera acutorostrata	[62]
	Ballena franca austral, Eubalaena australis	[63]

Disminuciones de población o cambios relacionados con las actividades de observación de ballenas	Delfín mular común, Tursiops truncatus	[64-66]
	Delfín mular del Indo-Pacífico, Tursiops aduncus	[49]
	Delfín mular australiano, Tursiops australis	[51]

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Resumen de estudios que documentan las repercusiones de la observación de ballenas

Resumen de los estudios que documentan los efectos de la observación de ballenas en los individuos o las poblaciones de ballenas y delfines

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