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Communicative cultures in cetaceans: Big questions are unanswered, functional analyses are needed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Todd M. Freeberg
Todd M. Freeberg
Affiliation:
Departments of Audiology and Speech Sciences, and Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 freeberg@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu
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Abstract

Demonstrating cetacean communicative cultures requires documenting vocal differences among conspecific groups that are socially learned and stable across generations. Evidence to date does not provide strong scientific support for culture in cetacean vocal systems. Further, functional analyses with playbacks are needed to determine whether observed group differences in vocalizations are meaningful to the animals themselves.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 334
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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