Tadamichi MORISAKA, Masanori SHINOHARA, Fumio NAKAHARA, Tomonari
AKAMATSU (2005): Geographic variations in the whistles among three
Indo-Pacific
bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus populations in Japan. Fisheries Science,
71(3), 568 ff
Abstract: Whistles of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins from three
populations in Japan were collected and analyzed quantitatively. Geographic
variations in the whistles among populations were found. Significant
differences in the whistles among years within each population were also
found, but those differences could not explain whole differences among
populations because some parameters of the whistles had more differences
among populations than among years within each population. As changes with
time in the whistles within each population might cause the geographic
variations among populations, researchers should take the yearly change
within populations into consideration when they study the geographic
variation in the whistle of dolphins.
Sincerly
Sonja Amoser
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University of Vienna, Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior
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