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dc.contributor.authorSørensen, P. M.
dc.contributor.authorWisniewska, D. M.
dc.contributor.authorJensen, F. H.
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, M.
dc.contributor.authorTeilmann, J.
dc.contributor.authorMadsen, P. T.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-12T13:30:15Z
dc.date.available2018-07-12T13:30:15Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-01
dc.identifier254682621
dc.identifier69c2a16e-9314-47ba-9ae0-a2a6249435c4
dc.identifier85049179110
dc.identifier000436233600030
dc.identifier.citationSørensen , P M , Wisniewska , D M , Jensen , F H , Johnson , M , Teilmann , J & Madsen , P T 2018 , ' Click communication in wild harbour porpoises ( Phocoena phocoena ) ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 8 , 9702 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-28022-8en
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/15314
dc.descriptionThe data collection was funded by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) under contract “Cluster 7 - Effects of underwater noise on marine vertebrates” and “UWE - Under Water Experiments”. FHJ was supported by the Office of Naval Research (N00014-1410410), the Carlsberg Foundation (CF15-0915) and an AIAS-COFUND fellowship from Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. MJ was supported by the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland (MASTS) and by a Marie Curie-Sklodowska award.en
dc.description.abstractSocial delphinids employ a vocal repertoire of clicks for echolocation and whistles for communication. Conversely, the less social and acoustically cryptic harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) only produce narrow-band high-frequency (NBHF) clicks with properties that appear poorly suited for communication. Nevertheless, these small odontocetes likely mediate social interactions, such as mate choice and mother-calf contact, with sound. Here, we deployed six tags (DTAG3) on wild porpoises in Danish waters for a total of 96 hours to investigate if the patterns and use of stereotyped NBHF click trains are consistent with a communication function. We show that wild porpoises produce frequent (up to 27 min-1), high-repetition rate click series with repetition rates and output levels different from those of foraging buzzes. These sounds are produced in bouts and frequently co-occur with emission of similar sounds by nearby conspecifics, audible on the tags for >10% of the time. These results suggest that social interactions are more important to this species than their limited social encounters at the surface may indicate and that these interactions are mediated by at least two broad categories of calls composed of short, high-repetition rate click trains that may encode information via the repetition rate of their stereotyped NBHF clicks.
dc.format.extent11
dc.format.extent3808614
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Reportsen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleClick communication in wild harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Commissionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Bioacoustics groupen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sound Tags Groupen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotlanden
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41598-018-28022-8
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberPCIG10-GA-2011-304132en


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