Behavioural and acoustic observations of sperm whales in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 541-550

  Goold, John C ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

PHYSETER MACROCEPHALUS;

EID: 0032789480     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315498000666     Document Type: Article

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