The influence of social affiliation on individual vocal signatures of northern resident killer whales (Orcinus orca)

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 481-484

  Nousek, Anna E ^a,b   Slater, Peter J B ^a   Wang, Chao ^c   Miller, Patrick J O ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam forming; Neural network; Signature; Vocal variation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; PREDATOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; KILLER WHALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; JOHNSTONE STRAIT; NORTH AMERICA;

DELPHINIDAE; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 33845576656     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0517     Document Type: Article

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