Bottlenose dolphins can use learned vocal labels to address each other

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 13216-13221

  King, Stephanie L ^a   Janik, Vincent M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Individual recognition; Marine mammals; Playback experiment; Vocal matching

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; COGNITION; HEARING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COGNITION; INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION; MARINE MAMMALS; PLAYBACK EXPERIMENT; VOCAL MATCHING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; HUMANS; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84881451726     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304459110     Document Type: Article

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