@article{82705e402b334422a4037c9d19e05ba4,
title = "Kinship and association do not explain vocal repertoire variation among individual sperm whales or social units",
abstract = "Vocal learning often results in distinct dialects among individuals or groups, but the forces selecting for these phenomena remain unclear. Female sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, and their dependent offspring live in matrilineally based social units, and the units associate within sympatric clans. The clans have distinctive dialects of codas (patterns of clicks), as do, to a lesser extent, the units within clans. We examined the similarity of coda repertoires of individuals and units from the eastern Caribbean and related these to patterns of kinship and social association. Similarity in coda repertoires was not discernibly correlated with close kinship or association rates for either individuals or units (matrix correlation coefficients ",
keywords = "Dialect, Kinship, Matrilineal, Social unit, Sperm whale, Vocal learning, Vocalization",
author = "Konrad, {Christine M.} and Frasier, {Timothy R.} and Luke Rendell and Hal Whitehead and Shane Gero",
note = "Fieldwork was funded through a Carlsberg Foundation field expedition grant and an FNU fellowship from the Danish Council for Independent Research supplemented by a Sapere Aude Research Talent Award to S.G., as well as by Discovery and Equipment grants to H.W. from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and laboratory work by a Discovery Development Grant from NSERC to T.F. Supplementary funding was provided through an FNU Large Frame Grant to Peter Madsen from Aarhus University. S.G. is supported by a technical and scientific research grant from the Villum Foundation, and C.K. by a NSERC CGS, a Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Graduate Scholarship and the Patrick F. Lett Fund.",
year = "2018",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.09.011",
language = "English",
volume = "145",
pages = "131--140",
journal = "Animal Behaviour",
issn = "0003-3472",
publisher = "Academic Press/Elsevier ",
}