Whistle sequences in wild killer whales (Orcinus orca)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1822-1829

  Riesch, Rüdiger ^a   Ford, John K B ^b   Thomsen, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; MAMMALS;

BRIDGE ELEMENTS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMPLEX SIGNALLING; EMISSION PATTERNS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SPECIFIC SEQUENCES; SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; TRANSITION PATTERNS; VANCOUVER; VOCAL SIGNALS;

SIGNALING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; KILLER WHALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; STEREOTYPY; VOCALIZATION; WHISTLEBLOWING;

ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; FEMALE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 52449114186     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2956467     Document Type: Article

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