Synthesis and modification of the whistles of the bottlenose dolphin, tursiops truncatus

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 407-416

  Buck, John R ^a,b   Morgenbesser, Hugh B ^c   Tyack, Peter L ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CALCULATION; DOLPHIN; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; WAVEFORM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DOLPHINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033940968     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.429474     Document Type: Review

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