Examining the temporal structure and information entropy of leopard seal calling bouts

Leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) produce sequences of stereotyped sounds, or bouts, during their breeding season. The seals share common sounds but combine them in individually distinctive sequences. This study examines the underlying structure of the calling bouts by estimating the information ent...

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Published in:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Main Authors: Buck, John R, Rogers, Tracey L
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_42314
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4970241