Relationship between sperm whale (physeter macrocephalus) click structure and size derived from videocamera images of a depredating whale (sperm whale prey acquisition)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3444-3453

  Mathias, Delphine ^a   Thode, Aaron ^a   Straley, Jan ^b   Folkert, Kendall ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^c Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; ANOPLOPOMA FIMBRIAE; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; GULF OF ALASKA; LONGLINE; SOUND PRODUCTIONS; SPERM WHALES; TOTAL LENGTHS; VISUAL ESTIMATES;

CAMERAS; FISHERIES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ALLOMETRY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CLICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSETER MACROCEPHALUS; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SOUND; SPERM WHALE; TELEVISION CAMERA; THEORY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BODY SIZE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPERM WHALE; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 65549115537     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3097758     Document Type: Article

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