Variation in call pitch among killer whale ecotypes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1747-1752

  Foote, Andrew D ^a,c   Nystuen, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ECOSYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BACKGROUND NOISE; ECOTYPES; SIGNALERS; VOCAL STRUCTURE;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; DIET; ECOTYPE; HABITAT; KILLER WHALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATRY; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 40749103228     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2836752     Document Type: Article

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