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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