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SUBMITTER: Stafford KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5938564 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stafford K M KM Lydersen C C Wiig Ø Ø Kovacs K M KM
Biology letters 20180401 4
Almost all mammals communicate using sound, but few species produce complex songs. Two baleen whales sing complex songs that change annually, though only the humpback whale (<i>Megaptera novaeangliae</i>) has received much research attention. This study focuses on the other baleen whale singer, the bowhead whale (<i>Balaena mysticetus</i>). Members of the Spitsbergen bowhead whale population produced 184 different song types over a 3-year period, based on duty-cycled recordings from a site in Fr ...[more]