Humpback whale song on the Southern Ocean feeding grounds: Implications for cultural transmission

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Garland, Ellen C ^a   Gedamke, Jason ^b   Rekdahl, Melinda L ^c   Noad, Michael J ^c   Garrigue, Claire ^d   Gales, Nick ^e  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Operation Cetaces   (New Caledonia)

^e AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; HUMPBACK WHALE; MALE; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84894244174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079422     Document Type: Article

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