Acoustic detections of singing humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the eastern North Pacific during their northbound migration

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 506-514

  Norris, Thomas F ^a,c   Mc Donald, Mark ^a   Barlow, Jay ^b  

^a Southwest Fisheries Science Center ^*  (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 0033036218     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427071     Document Type: Article

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