PEER-REVIEWED PAPERSignature WhistlesDOI: 10.1038/207434a0
Individualized Whistle Contours in Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
Nature1965-07-24
Research Abstract & Summary
Foundational empirical study by Melba C. Caldwell and David K. Caldwell demonstrating that individual bottlenose dolphins produce stereotypic, individualized frequency-modulated whistle contours that serve as individual acoustic identifiers.
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