Vocal copying of individually distinctive signature whistles in bottlenose dolphins by Stephanie L....

Vocal copying of individually distinctive signature whistles in bottlenose dolphins

by Stephanie L. King, Laela S. Sayigh, Randall S. Wells, Wendi Fellner, and Vincent M. Janik

Proceedings BVolume 280(1757):20130053

April 22, 2013

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Spectrograms showing three examples each of the (i) signature whistle of the animal being copied, (ii) signature whistle copies and (iii) the signature whistle of the copier; sampling rate: 40

000 Hz, FFT length: 1024, Hanning window function.

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Coefficients of associations (CoA) of the pairs of animals that copied (black) and did not copy (white).

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Multi-dimensional scaling plot based on all acoustic parameter measurements.

Stephanie L. King et al. Proc. R. Soc. B 2013;280:20130053

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