Is killer whale dialect evolution random?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 99, Issue , 2013, Pages 34-41

  Filatova, Olga A ^a   Burdin, Alexandr M ^b   Hoyt, Erich ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Dialect; Killer whale; Stereotyped call; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; DIVERGENCE; LEARNING; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; KILLER WHALE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; TIME; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 84880337027     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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