Song variation of the South Eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whale population in the Perth Canyon, Western Australia.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Capri D Jolliffe, Robert D McCauley, Alexander N Gavrilov, K Curt S Jenner, Micheline-Nicole M Jenner, Alec J Duncan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Indian; Isi; Blue whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208619; https://doaj.org/article/e427e6d8939045bd8648d97fa1097e4a

Sea noise collected over 2003 to 2017 from the Perth Canyon, Western Australia was analysed for variation in the South Eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whale song structure. The primary song-types were: P3, a three unit phrase (I, II and III) repeated with an inter-song interval (ISI) of 170-194 s; P...