Dolphin whistles: A functional misnomer revealed by heliox breathing

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-213

  Madsen, P T ^a   Jensen, F H ^a   Carder, D ^b   Ridgway, S ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Call; Communication; Dolphin; Sound production; Toothed whale; Whistle

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; DOLPHIN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LEARNING; VIBRATION; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; DELPHINIDAE; MAMMALIA; ODONTOCETI; TURSIOPS;

EID: 84856616539     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0701     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Janik, V., Sayigh, L. & Wells, R. 2006 Signature whistle shape conveys identity information to bottlenose dolphins. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 8293-8297. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0509918103 (Pubitemid 43801091)
2. Sayigh, L. S., Esch, H. C., Wells, R. S. & Janik, V. M. 2007 Facts about signature whistles of 5 bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Anim. Behav. 74, 1631-1642. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.02.018) (Pubitemid 350216802)
3. Cranford, T.W., Amundin, M. & Norris, K. S. 1996 Functional morphology and homology in the odontocete nasal complex. J. Morphol. 228, 223-285. (doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4687(199606)228:3,223::AID-JMOR1.3.0.CO;2-3)
4. Laje, R. & Mindlin, G. B. 2005 The physics of bird song. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
5. Nowicki, S. 1987 Vocal tract resonances in oscine bird sound production. Nature 325, 53-54. (doi:10.1038/325053a0)
6. Wilson, T. A., Beavers, G. S., DeCoster, M. A., Holger, D. K. & Regenfus, M. D. 1971 Experiments on the fluid mechanics of whistling. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1, 366-372. (doi:10.1121/1.1912641)
7. Ridgway, S. H. & Carder, D. A. 1988 Nasal sound production and pressure in an echolocating white whale. In Animal sonar: processes and performance (eds P. Nachtigall & P. Moore), pp. 53-60. New York, NY: Plenum Press.
8. Lilly, J. C. 1962 Vocal behavior of the bottlenose dolphin. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 106, 520-529.
9. Mackay, R. S. & Liaw, H. M. 1981 Dolphin vocalization mechanisms. Science 212, 676-677. (doi:10.1126/science.212.4495.676)
10. Amundin, M. 1991 Helium effects on the click frequency spectrum of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90, 53-59. (doi:10.1121/1.401281)
11. Jensen, F. H.,Marrero, J., Aguilar Soto, N., Johnson,M. & Madsen, P. T. 2011 Calling under pressure. Proc. R. Soc. B 278. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2010. 2604)
12. Murray, S. O., Mercado, E. & Roitblat, H. L. 1998 Characterizing the graded structure of false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) vocalizations. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 1679-1688. (doi:10.1121/1.424380) (Pubitemid 28421593)
13. Miller, P. J. O., Samarra, F. I. P. & Perthuison, A. U. 2007 Caller sex and orientation influence spectral characteristics of 'two-voice' stereotyped calls produced by free-ranging killer whales. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, 3932-3937. (doi:10.1121/1.2722056) (Pubitemid 46872146)
14. Ridgway, S. H., Carder, D. A., Kamolnick, T., Smith, R. R., Schlundt, C. E. & Elsberry, W. R. 2001 Hearing and whistling in the deep sea. J. Exp. Biol. 204, 3829-3841.