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dc.contributor.authorGarland, Ellen C.
dc.contributor.authorGedamke, Jason
dc.contributor.authorRekdahl, Melinda L.
dc.contributor.authorNoad, Michael J.
dc.contributor.authorGarrigue, Claire
dc.contributor.authorGales, Nick
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-13T12:01:05Z
dc.date.available2015-03-13T12:01:05Z
dc.date.issued2013-11-20
dc.identifier174254698
dc.identifier1017388d-3b3c-4124-9d91-9ebe9a5ff4e4
dc.identifier000327313100021
dc.identifier84894244174
dc.identifier.citationGarland , E C , Gedamke , J , Rekdahl , M L , Noad , M J , Garrigue , C & Gales , N 2013 , ' Humpback whale song on the southern ocean feeding grounds : implications for cultural transmission ' , PLoS One , vol. 8 , no. 11 , 79422 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079422en
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8240-1267/work/49580218
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/6222
dc.descriptionDate of Acceptance: 23/09/2013en
dc.description.abstractMale humpback whales produce a long, complex, and stereotyped song on low-latitude breeding grounds; they also sing while migrating to and from these locations, and occasionally in high-latitude summer feeding areas. All males in a population sing the current version of the constantly evolving display and, within an ocean basin, populations sing similar songs; however, this sharing can be complex. In the western and central South Pacific region there is repeated cultural transmission of song types from eastern Australia to other populations eastward. Song sharing is hypothesized to occur through several possible mechanisms. Here, we present the first example of feeding ground song from the Southern Ocean Antarctic Area V and compare it to song from the two closest breeding populations. The early 2010 song contained at least four distinct themes; these matched four themes from the eastern Australian 2009 song, and the same four themes from the New Caledonian 2010 song recorded later in the year. This provides evidence for at least one of the hypothesized mechanisms of song transmission between these two populations, singing while on shared summer feeding grounds. In addition, the feeding grounds may provide a point of acoustic contact to allow the rapid horizontal cultural transmission of song within the western and central South Pacific region and the wider Southern Ocean.
dc.format.extent9
dc.format.extent4734745
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS Oneen
dc.subjectEastern North Pacificen
dc.subjectMegaptera-novaeangliaeen
dc.subjectPopulation-structureen
dc.subjectAcoustic detectionsen
dc.subjectWintering groundsen
dc.subjectAtlantic-oceanen
dc.subjectZealand watersen
dc.subjectNew-Caledoniaen
dc.subjectBasic scaleen
dc.subjectMigrationen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleHumpback whale song on the southern ocean feeding grounds : implications for cultural transmissionen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Uniten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0079422
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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