Easily measured call attributes can detect vocal differences between weddell seals from two areas

Bioacoustics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 211-222

  Terhune, J M ^a   Healey, S R ^a   Burton, H R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geographic variation; Leptonychotes weddellii; Vocalisations

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; PINNIPED; VOCALIZATION;

ANTARCTICA;

LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII;

EID: 0347833421     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2001.9753463     Document Type: Article

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