Acoustic behaviour, ecology and social structure of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus, Montagu 1821) in the North Atlantic

• Main Author: Englund, Anneli
• Other Authors: Rogan, Emer, Ingram, Simon N.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University College Cork 2014
• Subjects: Bottlenose dolphin; Tursiops truncatus; North Atlantic; Whistle variation; Population structure; Habitat use; Ecotype; Montagu
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1546

Communication is important for social and other behavioural interactions in most marine mammal species. The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus, Montagu, 1821) is a highly social species that use whistles as communication calls to express identity and to initiate and maintain contact between soci...