Diel variation in blue whale calls recorded in the eastern tropical Pacific

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 951-958

  Stafford, Kathleen M ^a   Moore, Sue E ^a   Fox, Christopher G ^b,c  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; DIEL VARIATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; WHALE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CETACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; MUSCULUS;

EID: 15744362084     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.06.025     Document Type: Article

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