Source of the North Pacific "boing" sound attributed to minke whales

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3346-3351

  Rankin, Shannon ^a   Barlow, Jay ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; SURVEYS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

CETACEAN SURVEY; MINKE WHALES; PULES REPETITION RATES; VOCALIZATION;

OCEAN HABITATS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; MINKE WHALE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEASONS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 27744605941     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2046747     Document Type: Article

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