Pilot Whales Attracted to Killer Whale Sounds: Acoustically-Mediated Interspecific Interactions in Cetaceans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Curé, Charlotte ^a   Antunes, Ricardo ^a   Samarra, Filipa ^a   Alves, Ana Catarina ^a   Visser, Fleur ^b,c   Kvadsheim, Petter H ^d   Miller, Patrick J O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c Kelp Marine Research   (Netherlands)

^d NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CETACEAN; COMPETITOR SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; HERRING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; KILLER WHALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PILOT WHALE; PREDATOR; SENSOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND; WHALE, KILLER; WHALES, PILOT;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; CLUPEIDAE; DELPHINIDAE; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 84871576579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052201     Document Type: Article

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