Bottlenose dolphins exchange signature whistles when meeting at sea

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1738, 2012, Pages 2539-2545

  Quick, Nicola J ^a   Janik, Vincent M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Individual recognition; Signature whistle; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84987749302     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2537     Document Type: Article

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