Browsing Research Articles (Mammal Research Institute) by UP Author "Gridley, Tess"

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The acoustic repertoire of wild common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Walvis Bay, Namibia

Gridley, Tess; Nastasi, Aurora; Kriesell, Hannah Joy; Elwen, Simon Harvey (Taylor and Francis, 2015-05)

Describing the repertoire of sounds produced by wild cetaceans is necessary for understanding their function, for acoustic population monitoring and for measuring the potential influence of anthropogenic impact. Geographic ...
Records of kogiid whales in Namibia, including the first record of the dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima)

Elwen, Simon Harvey; Gridley, Tess; Roux, J.P. (Jacobus Petrus); Best, Peter B.; Smale, Malcolm J. (Cambridge University Press, 2014-01)

Dwarf (Kogia sima) and pygmy (K. breviceps) sperm whales occur in pelagic waters around southern Africa. Here we report the first record of K. sima from Namibia and provide information on the basic morphometrics and diet ...
Signature whistles in free-ranging populations of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops aduncus

Gridley, Tess; Cockcroft, Victor G.; Hawkins, Elizabeth R.; Blewitt, Michelle Lemon; Morisaka, Tadamichi; Janik, Vincent M. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-04)

Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) use individually distinctive signature whistles which are highly stereotyped and function as contact calls. Here we investigate whether Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (T. ...

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