Individualized Whistle Contours in Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jul 1965 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 207, pages 434-435 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: MELBA C. CALDWELL; DAVID K. CALDWELL;

doi: 10.1038/207434a0

Individualized Whistle Contours in Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

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IN 1953, Essapian1 suggested that individual bottle-nosed dolphins, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu), may have distinctive notes which each dolphin can recognize. From his context, in using the word ‘notes’ Essapian referred to the whistle component of Tursiops phonation.

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