Individual, unit and vocal clan level identity cues in sperm whale codas

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Gero, Shane ^a,b,c   Whitehead, Hal ^b   Rendell, Luke ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cetaceans; Communication; Conformism; Individuality; Social complexity hypothesis; Social structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958073228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150372     Document Type: Article

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