Cross-cultural and cross-ecotype production of a killer whale 'excitement' call suggests universality

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Rehn, Nicola ^d   Filatova, Olga A ^a   Durban, John W ^b   Foote, Andrew D ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Close range interactions; Innateness; Universality; Vocal signal

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ECOTYPE; HERITABILITY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SIGNAL; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; HUMAN; KILLER WHALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALE, KILLER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

MAMMALIA; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 78751647255     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0732-5     Document Type: Article

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