Intra- and intergroup vocal behavior in resident killer whales, Orcinus orca

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3710-3716

  Weiß, Brigitte M ^a,c   Symonds, Helena ^b   Spong, Paul ^b   Ladich, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b OrcaLab   (Canada)

^c Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; BIRDS; MAMMALS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

INTERGROUP CONTEXTS; INTRAGROUP COMMUNICATION; VOCAL COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; KILLER WHALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 38849120852     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2799907     Document Type: Article

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