Biblioteca

We review and document scientific publications on marine mammal bioacoustics in Latin America between 1971 and 2021, showing early scarcity and an increase through time.
Marine bioacoustic studies how marine fauna produce and receive sounds that facilitate their life functions. Bioacoustics explores the biology and ecology of marine mammals, difficult or impossible to carry out using only traditional visual methods.
From the first published study on the free-living common bottlenose dolphin in the Gulf of Mexico in 1953, acoustic studies on marine mammals have increased; most of its growth occurred in the 2000s. The objective of this study was to document the history and development of marine mammal bioacoustics in Latin America.