The social vocalization repertoire of east Australian migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2893-2905

  Dunlop, Rebecca A ^a   Noad, Michael J ^a   Cato, Douglas H ^b,c   Stokes, Dale ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

HUMPBACK WHALES; SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMPBACK WHALE; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 38049093373     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2783115     Document Type: Article

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