"When we make noise in the sea, we need to consider how animals are affected. Our results show that such effects can be complicated. In our case they were beneficial to the seal but bad for the fish." ...

Scientists said the fish tags were creating a "dinner bell effect" for seals Acoustic tags placed on fish to study their behaviour and movement are causing them to be easily hunted and eaten by ...

Evidence for the “dinner bell” effect emerged when Stansbury and her colleagues released individual seals into concrete pools with 20 hiding places. Two of these hidden spots contained a fish ...

While studying how light affects baitfish in Berkley Canyon off the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada, an international team of scientists was in for a big surprise. Several young male ...

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Paris - Sound-emitting tags fitted to fish to track their survival may, paradoxically, be alerting predator seals to their whereabouts, said scientists on Wednesday who warned of a “dinner bell ...

They said the fish tags were creating a "dinner bell effect" for predators. The new findings have been published in Royal Society journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

A colony of sneaky seals has been caught using deep-sea research sonar noise as a dinner bell. The clever marine mammals are believed to have learned to associate the sonar with a good feeding ...

Acoustic tags placed on fish to study their behaviour and movement are causing them to be easily hunted and eaten by seals, research has claimed. St Andrews University scientists found grey seals ...

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