Postpartum whistle production in bottlenose dolphins

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 479-502

  Fripp, Deborah ^a,b,c   Tyack, Peter ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Dallas Zoological Society   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Imprinting; Mother infant; Signature whistles; Tursiops truncatus; Vocal behavior

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOLPHIN; IMPRINTING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; VOCALIZATION;

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 47649116445     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00195.x     Document Type: Article

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