Variation in feeding vocalizations of humpback whales megaptera novaeangliae from southeast alaska

Bioacoustics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 277-295

  Cerchio, Salvatore ^a   Dahlheim, Marilyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding vocalization; Foraging; Humpback whale; Individual variation; Multivariate

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 0345877576     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2001.9753468     Document Type: Article

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