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More of the same: allopatric humpback whale populations share acoustic repertoire.
Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Monthly and Diel Acoustic Occurrence of Four Baleen Whale Species in South African Waters.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- A first vocal repertoire characterization of long-finned pilot whales (Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Chimpanzee pant-hoots encode individual information more reliably than group differences.American journal of primatology · 2022Article
- All units are equal in humpback whale songs, but some are more equal than others.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Allopatric humpback whales of differing generations share call types between foraging and wintering grounds.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Exploring movement patterns and changing distributions of baleen whales in the western North Atlantic using a decade of passive acoustic data.Global change biology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundHumpback whales (
methodsWe looked for evidence that temporally stable call types are shared by two allopatric humpback whale populations while on their northern hemisphere foraging grounds in order to test the hypothesis that some calls, in strong contrast to song, are innate within the humpback whale acoustic repertoire.
resultsDespite being geographically and genetically distinct populations, humpback whales in Southeast Alaska (North Pacific Ocean) share at least five call types with conspecifics in Massachusetts Bay (North Atlantic Ocean). DISCUSSION: This study is the first to identify call types shared by allopatric populations, and provides evidence that some call types may be innate.
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