An analysis of pilot whale vocalization activity using hidden Markov models

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Main Authors: Popov, Valentin Mina, Langrock, Roland, De Ruiter, Stacy Lynn, Visser, Fleur
• Other Authors: Office of Naval Research, University of St Andrews. Statistics, University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: GC Oceanography; QH301 Biology; QA Mathematics; QL Zoology; NDAS; GC; QH301; QA; QL; Lofoten; Norway; Vestfjord
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10023/11194; https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4973624

Vocalizations of cetaceans form a key component of their social interactions. Such vocalization activity is driven by the behavioral states of the whales, which are not directly observable, so that latent-state models are natural candidates for modeling empirical data on vocalizations. In this paper...