Male sperm whale acoustic behavior observed from multipaths at a single hydrophone

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2677-2687

  Laplanche, Christophe ^a   Adam, Olivier ^a   Lopatka, Maciej ^a   Motsch, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; HYDROPHONES; SONAR;

BIOSONAR TESTS; ECHOLOCATION SOUNDS; FORAGING; ODONTOCETES;

ACOUSTICS;

HYDROPHONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLICK; ECHOLOCATION; ENERGY; FORAGING; MALE; MICROPHONE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPERM WHALE; WHALE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECHOLOCATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; SPERM WHALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 26844442526     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2033567     Document Type: Article

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