Research Catalog

Title

Communication and behavior of whales / edited by Roger Payne.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Published by Westview Press for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1983.

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Additional Authors

• Payne, Roger, 1935-
• American Association for the Advancement of Science

Description

xii, 643 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Based on a symposium held at the 1980 AAAS National Annual Meeting in San Francisco, January 3-8. Documents some of the core studies that have ushered in changes in focus and methodology for whale studies.

Series Statement

AAAS selected symposium ; 76

Uniform Title

AAAS selected symposium 76.

Subject

• Ethology
• Communication
• Cetacea
• Whales > Behavior > Congresses
• Mammals > Behavior > Congresses
• Animal communication > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "This book is based on a symposium that was held at the 1980 AAAS National Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 3-8"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Progressive changes in the songs of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae): a detailed analysis of two seasons in Hawaii / Katharine Payne, Peter Tyack, Roger Payne -- Changes over time in the songs of known individual humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) / Linda N. Guinee, Kevin Chu, Eleanor M. Dorsey -- Aberrant songs of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae): clues to the structure of humpback songs / Peter Frumhoff -- Group-specific dialects of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in British Columbia / John K.B. Ford, H. Dean Fisher -- Acoustic communication and behavior of the southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) / Christopher W. Clark -- Observations on the abundance and behavior of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off West Maui, Hawaii, 1977-79 / James D. Darling, Kimberly M. Gibson, Gregory K. Silber -- Identification, growth rate, and behavior of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) cows and calves in the waters off Maui, Hawaii, 1977-79 / Deborah A. Glockner, Spearous C. Venus -- Lagoon entrance and other aggregations of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) / Kenneth S. Norris, Bernardo Villa-Ramirez, George Nichols, Bernd Wursig, Karen Miller -- Sexual dimorphism and aggressive use of callosities in right whales (Eubalaena australis) / Roger Payne, Eleanor M. Dorsey -- Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) songs as an indicator of 'stocks' / Roger Payne, Linda N. Guinee -- Migratory destinations of North Pacific humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) / James D. Darling, Charles M. Jurasz -- External features in southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) and their use in identifying individuals / Roger Payne, Oliver Brazier, Eleanor M. Dorsey, Judith S. Perkins, Victoria J. Rowntree, Alan Titus -- Determining the sex of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in their natural environment / Deborah A. Glockner -- An annotated bibliography of the published literature on the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) and the right whale (Eubalaena glacialis/australis), 1864-1980 / James E. Bird.

ISBN

0865317224

LCCN

^^^83050721^//r84

OCLC

• 10333043
• SCSB-10268689

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library