Quantifying humpback whale song sequences to understand the dynamics of song exchange at the ocean basin scale
Humpback whales have a continually evolving vocal sexual display, or "song," that appears to undergo both evolutionary and "revolutionary" change. All males within a population adhere to the current content and arrangement of the song. Populations within an ocean basin share simi...
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ftunivqespace:oai:espace.library.uq.edu.au:UQ:290147 2023-05-15T16:36:04+02:00 Quantifying humpback whale song sequences to understand the dynamics of song exchange at the ocean basin scale Garland, Ellen C. Noad, Michael J. Goldizen, Anne W. Lilley, Matthew S. Rekdahl, Melinda L. Garrigue, Claire Constantine, Rochelle Hauser, Nan Daeschler Poole, M. Michael Robbins, Jooke 2013-01-01 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:290147/UQ290147_OA.pdf https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:290147 eng eng A I P Publishing LLC doi:10.1121/1.4770232 issn:0001-4966 issn:1520-8524 orcid:0000-0002-2799-8320 orcid:0000-0003-0101-4108 Not set Humpback whales Sexual display Song 1201 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 3102 Acoustics and Ultrasonics Journal Article 2013 ftunivqespace https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4770232 2020-12-14T23:43:20Z Humpback whales have a continually evolving vocal sexual display, or "song," that appears to undergo both evolutionary and "revolutionary" change. All males within a population adhere to the current content and arrangement of the song. Populations within an ocean basin share similarities in their songs; this sharing is complex as multiple variations of the song (song types) may be present within a region at any one time. To quantitatively investigate the similarity of song types, songs were compared at both the individual singer and population level using the Levenshtein distance technique and cluster analysis. The highly stereotyped sequences of themes from the songs of 211 individuals from populations within the western and central South Pacific region from 1998 through 2008 were grouped together based on the percentage of song similarity, and compared to qualitatively assigned song types. The analysis produced clusters of highly similar songs that agreed with previous qualitative assignments. Each cluster contained songs from multiple populations and years, confirming the eastward spread of song types and their progressive evolution through the study region. Quantifying song similarity and exchange will assist in understanding broader song dynamics and contribute to the use of vocal displays as population identifiers. Article in Journal/Newspaper Humpback Whale The University of Queensland: UQ eSpace Pacific The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133 1 560 569 |
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Humpback whales Sexual display Song 1201 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 3102 Acoustics and Ultrasonics Garland, Ellen C. Noad, Michael J. Goldizen, Anne W. Lilley, Matthew S. Rekdahl, Melinda L. Garrigue, Claire Constantine, Rochelle Hauser, Nan Daeschler Poole, M. Michael Robbins, Jooke Quantifying humpback whale song sequences to understand the dynamics of song exchange at the ocean basin scale |
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Humpback whales have a continually evolving vocal sexual display, or "song," that appears to undergo both evolutionary and "revolutionary" change. All males within a population adhere to the current content and arrangement of the song. Populations within an ocean basin share similarities in their songs; this sharing is complex as multiple variations of the song (song types) may be present within a region at any one time. To quantitatively investigate the similarity of song types, songs were compared at both the individual singer and population level using the Levenshtein distance technique and cluster analysis. The highly stereotyped sequences of themes from the songs of 211 individuals from populations within the western and central South Pacific region from 1998 through 2008 were grouped together based on the percentage of song similarity, and compared to qualitatively assigned song types. The analysis produced clusters of highly similar songs that agreed with previous qualitative assignments. Each cluster contained songs from multiple populations and years, confirming the eastward spread of song types and their progressive evolution through the study region. Quantifying song similarity and exchange will assist in understanding broader song dynamics and contribute to the use of vocal displays as population identifiers. |
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Garland, Ellen C. Noad, Michael J. Goldizen, Anne W. Lilley, Matthew S. Rekdahl, Melinda L. Garrigue, Claire Constantine, Rochelle Hauser, Nan Daeschler Poole, M. Michael Robbins, Jooke |
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Garland, Ellen C. Noad, Michael J. Goldizen, Anne W. Lilley, Matthew S. Rekdahl, Melinda L. Garrigue, Claire Constantine, Rochelle Hauser, Nan Daeschler Poole, M. Michael Robbins, Jooke |
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Quantifying humpback whale song sequences to understand the dynamics of song exchange at the ocean basin scale |
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Quantifying humpback whale song sequences to understand the dynamics of song exchange at the ocean basin scale |
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Quantifying humpback whale song sequences to understand the dynamics of song exchange at the ocean basin scale |
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quantifying humpback whale song sequences to understand the dynamics of song exchange at the ocean basin scale |
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