Estimated communication range of social sounds used by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1671-1683

  Quintana Rizzo, Ester ^a   Mann, David A ^a   Wells, Randall S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ATTENUATION; BIODIVERSITY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

ACOUSTIC CONTACTS; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; COMMUNICATION RANGES; HEARING SENSITIVITY;

BIOCOMMUNICATIONS;

WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLORIDA; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SEAWATER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33748566348     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2226559     Document Type: Article

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