Sperm whale behaviour indicates the use of echolocation click buzzes 'creaks' in prey capture

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1554, 2004, Pages 2239-2247

  Miller, Patrick J O ^a,b   Johnson, Mark P ^b   Tyack, Peter L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diving; Echolocation; Foraging; Sperm whale

Indexed keywords

ECHOLOCATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREY CAPTURE; WHALE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; DIVING; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING; FORAGING; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; WHALE; ACOUSTICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GAIT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOUND DETECTION;

PHYSETER CATODON;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; DIVING; ECHOLOCATION; GAIT; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; WHALES;

EID: 16644387735     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2863     Document Type: Article

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