Weddell seals lengthen many underwater calls in response to conspecific vocalizations

Bioacoustics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 223-226

  Terhune, John M ^a   Grandmaitre, Nicole C ^a   Burton, Harry R ^b   Green, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

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EID: 0000089436     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.1994.9753246     Document Type: Article

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