'Megapclicks': Acoustic click trains and buzzes produced during night-time foraging of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 467-470

  Stimpert, Alison K ^a   Wiley, David N ^b   Au, Whitlow W L ^a   Johnson, Mark P ^c   Arsenault, Roland ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic behaviour; Baleen whale; Click; DTAG; Feeding; Northwest Atlantic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMPBACK WHALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMALS; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMPBACK WHALE; ORIENTATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 35548963396     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0281     Document Type: Article

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