Patterns in the vocalizations of male harbor seals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3403-3410

  Van Parijs, Sofie M ^a,b   Corkeron, Peter J ^c   Harvey, James ^d   Hayes, Sean A ^e   Mellinger, David K ^f,g   Rouget, Philippe A ^h,i   Thompson, Paul M ^j   Wahlberg, Magnus ^k,l   Kovacs, Kit M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^k INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^l AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SITE SELECTION;

VOCAL VARIATIONS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; UNITED STATES; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; MALE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEALS, EARLESS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS); VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037945397     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1568943     Document Type: Article

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