Do sperm whales share coda vocalizations? Insights into coda usage from acoustic size measurement

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 865-874

  Rendell, Luke ^a,c   Whitehead, Hal ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Max Plank Inst F V   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION; SIZE EFFECT; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MACROCEPHALUS; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETER MACROCEPHALUS; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 2442566608     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.04.018     Document Type: Article

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