Calling under pressure: Short-finned pilot whales make social calls during deep foraging dives

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1721, 2011, Pages 3017-3025

  Jensen, Frants H ^a   Perez, Jacobo Marrero ^b   Johnson, Mark ^c   Soto, Natacha Aguilar ^b,d   Madsen, Peter T ^a,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acoustic tags; Communication; Ecophysiology; Pilot whales; Social organization; Sound production

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; CALLING BEHAVIOR; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IDENTIFICATION KEY; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SOUND VELOCITY; TOOTH; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; GLOBICEPHALA MACRORHYNCHUS; ODONTOCETI;

EID: 80052766534     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2604     Document Type: Article

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