Call sharing across vocal clans of killer whales: Evidence for vocal imitation?

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Weiß, Brigitte M ^a,b   Symonds, Helena ^c   Spong, Paul ^c   Ladich, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle ^*  (Austria)

^c OrcaLab   (Canada)

Author keywords

Call sharing; Killer whale; Orcinus orca; Repertoire; Vocal imitation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

CETACEA; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 79954469673     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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