Sound Playback Experiments with Southern Right Whales ( Eubalaena australis )
- 8 February 1980
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 207 (4431) , 663-665
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.207.4431.663
Abstract
A variety of sound recordings were played to southern right whales. Whales approached the loudspeaker and made frequent sounds in response to recordings of other southern right whales, but swam away and made relatively few sounds in response to playbacks of water noise, 200-hertz tones, and humpback whale sounds. Thus it appears that southern right whales can differentiate between con-specific sounds and other sounds.Keywords
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