Beaked whales echolocate on prey

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2004, Pages

  Johnson, Mark ^a   Madsen, Peter T ^a   Zimmer, Walter M X ^b   Aguilar De Soto, Natacha ^c   Tyack, Peter L ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beaked whale; Clicks; Echolocation; Mesoplodon; Sonar; Ziphius

Indexed keywords

ECHOLOCATION; PREY LOCATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTIC MONITORING; ACOUSTIC RECORDING TAG; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; CLICK; DIVING; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORAGING; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; MONITORING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PREY; PREY SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SOUND; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION; WHALE; ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS;

MESOPLODON; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; ZIPHIUS; ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS;

EID: 17044406314     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0208     Document Type: Article

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