Data from: Socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the Atlantic Ocean
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are unusual in that there is good evidence for sympatric populations with distinct culturally determined behaviour, including potential acoustic markers of the population division. In the Pacific, socially segregated, vocal clans with distinct dialects coexist;...
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ftdans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:93306 2023-07-02T03:33:28+02:00 Data from: Socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the Atlantic Ocean Gero, Shane Bøttcher, Anne Whitehead, Hal Madsen, Peter Teglberg 2016-05-31T15:27:45.000+02:00 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-iu-sgdw https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:93306 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.53g73/1 doi:10.1098/rsos.160061 PMID:27429766 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-iu-sgdw doi:10.5061/dryad.53g73 https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:93306 OPEN_ACCESS: The data are archived in Easy, they are accessible elsewhere through the DOI https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf Life sciences medicine and health care 2016 ftdans https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.53g73/110.1098/rsos.16006110.5061/dryad.53g73 2023-06-13T13:21:47Z Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are unusual in that there is good evidence for sympatric populations with distinct culturally determined behaviour, including potential acoustic markers of the population division. In the Pacific, socially segregated, vocal clans with distinct dialects coexist; by contrast, geographical variation in vocal repertoire in the Atlantic has been attributed to drift. We examine networks of acoustic repertoire similarity and social interactions for 11 social units in the Eastern Caribbean. We find the presence of two socially segregated, sympatric vocal clans whose dialects differ significantly both in terms of categorical coda types produced by each clan (Mantel test between clans: matrix correlation = 0.256; p ≤ 0.001) and when using classification-free similarity which ignores defined types (Mantel test between clans: matrix correlation = 0.180; p ≤ 0.001). The more common of the two clans makes a characteristic 1 + 1 + 3 coda, while the other less often sighted clan makes predominantly regular codas. Units were only observed associating with other units within their vocal clan. This study demonstrates that sympatric vocal clans do exist in the Atlantic, that they define a higher order level of social organization as they do in the Pacific, and suggests that cultural identity at the clan level is probably important in this species worldwide. Other/Unknown Material Physeter macrocephalus Sperm whale Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS): EASY (KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) Pacific |
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Life sciences medicine and health care Gero, Shane Bøttcher, Anne Whitehead, Hal Madsen, Peter Teglberg Data from: Socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the Atlantic Ocean |
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Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are unusual in that there is good evidence for sympatric populations with distinct culturally determined behaviour, including potential acoustic markers of the population division. In the Pacific, socially segregated, vocal clans with distinct dialects coexist; by contrast, geographical variation in vocal repertoire in the Atlantic has been attributed to drift. We examine networks of acoustic repertoire similarity and social interactions for 11 social units in the Eastern Caribbean. We find the presence of two socially segregated, sympatric vocal clans whose dialects differ significantly both in terms of categorical coda types produced by each clan (Mantel test between clans: matrix correlation = 0.256; p ≤ 0.001) and when using classification-free similarity which ignores defined types (Mantel test between clans: matrix correlation = 0.180; p ≤ 0.001). The more common of the two clans makes a characteristic 1 + 1 + 3 coda, while the other less often sighted clan makes predominantly regular codas. Units were only observed associating with other units within their vocal clan. This study demonstrates that sympatric vocal clans do exist in the Atlantic, that they define a higher order level of social organization as they do in the Pacific, and suggests that cultural identity at the clan level is probably important in this species worldwide. |
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Gero, Shane Bøttcher, Anne Whitehead, Hal Madsen, Peter Teglberg |
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Gero, Shane Bøttcher, Anne Whitehead, Hal Madsen, Peter Teglberg |
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Data from: Socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the Atlantic Ocean |
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Data from: Socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the Atlantic Ocean |
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Data from: Socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the Atlantic Ocean |
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Data from: Socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the Atlantic Ocean |
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Data from: Socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the Atlantic Ocean |
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data from: socially segregated, sympatric sperm whale clans in the atlantic ocean |
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doi:10.5061/dryad.53g73/1 doi:10.1098/rsos.160061 PMID:27429766 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-iu-sgdw doi:10.5061/dryad.53g73 https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:93306 |
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OPEN_ACCESS: The data are archived in Easy, they are accessible elsewhere through the DOI https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf |
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