Humpback Whale Song and Foraging Behavior on an Antarctic Feeding Ground

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Stimpert, Alison K ^a   Peavey, Lindsey E ^b   Friedlaender, Ari S ^c   Nowacek, Douglas P ^c  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVING; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING ECOLOGY; HUMPBACK WHALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGING; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; HUMPBACK WHALE; SINGING;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 84871342203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051214     Document Type: Article

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