Dynamic horizontal cultural transmission of humpback whale song at the ocean basin scale

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 687-691

  Garland, Ellen C ^a,b   Goldizen, Anne W ^a   Rekdahl, Melinda L ^a   Constantine, Rochelle ^b,c   Garrigue, Claire ^b,d   Hauser, Nan Daeschler ^b,e   Poole, M Michael ^b,f   Robbins, Jooke ^g   Noad, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SOUTH PACIFIC WHALE RESEARCH CONSORTIUM   (Cook Islands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d Opération Cétacés ^*  (New Caledonia)

^e Cook Islands Whale Research ^*  (Cook Islands)

^f Marine Mammal Research Program   (French Polynesia)

^g CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HUMPBACK WHALE; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; HUMPBACK WHALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 79955482897     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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