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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"bottlenose dolphin"”.
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Does Personality Similarity in Bottlenose Dolphin Pairs Influence Dyadic Bond Characteristics?
… bond components and is yet to be demonstrated in dolphins. This study utilizes a captive population in a naturalistic environment to test for correlation between similarity within the dyad along each personality factor and the strength of the dyad’s bond characteristics. Personality was assessed …
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Relating behavioral context to acoustic parameters of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) vocalizations
… to analyze the function of vocalizations of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. The thesis uses the social interaction as the basic unit of analysis, and maintains a deliberate focus on quantitative and replicable analyses throughout. A method for determining identity of the vocalizing …
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Relating behavioral context to acoustic parameters of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) vocalizations
… to analyze the function of vocalizations of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. The thesis uses the social interaction as the basic unit of analysis, and maintains a deliberate focus on quantitative and replicable analyses throughout. A method for determining identity of the vocalizing …
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Personality and affiliation involving a cooperative task in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Dyads
Cooperation may be related to personality in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) dyads. Five bottlenose dolphin pairs at the Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences (RIMS), Honduras, were presented with an apparatus released a food reward if opened cooperatively. I created personality profiles of …
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Solitary and Social Object Play in the Bottlenose Dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
… states, in calf, juvenile, subadult, and adult bottlenose dolphins (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>). While juveniles engaged in solitary play significantly more than any other age group, both juveniles and calves engaged in observer and social play significantly more than adults and subadults. …
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Investigation into the Neurogenetics of Vocal Learning in Tursiops Truncatus, the Bottlenose Dolphin
… reference genome assembly for the bottlenose dolphin (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>). Bottlenose dolphins are well-documented learners that share significant phenotypic overlap with human language development. Using a trio binning approach developed by the Vertebrate Genome Project …
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Effects of Failure on Subsequent Performance in the Bottlenose Dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
… based training sessions in 11 bottlenose dolphins (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>) at the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program in San Diego, CA. While learning a multi-faceted behavior not commonly found in nature, such as beaching, animals are likely to perform approximations of the …
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The Effect of Boat Type on Bottlenose Dolphin (<i>Tursiops trucatus</i>) Behavior in the Mississippi Sound
… The purpose of this study is to describe how dolphin behavior changed in the presence of boats in the Mississippi Sound between 2006 and 2012, and more specifically, to detail how different boat types impacted dolphins’ behavioral states. This study is unique in its capacity to assess the …
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Pre- and Post-Partum Whistle Production of a Bottlenose Dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>) Mother-Calf Dyad
… use pre- and post-partum in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (<em>Tursiops truncatus)</em> mother-calf dyad has rarely been studied. The current study is the first to investigate signature whistle production by the mother pre- and post-partum, as well as whistle use by other members of the …
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Predator movements in complex geography: Spatial distribution and temporal occurrence of low-density bottlenose dolphin communities off western Scotland
… is inhabited by two small under-studied common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) communities: the Inner Hebrides and the Sound of Barra (SoB) community. To allow assessments of anthropogenic impacts on these dolphins and development of efficient management to mitigate against these, an …
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High frequency sonar components of normal and hearing impaired dolphins
… constructed and tested to obtain toothed whale (Bottlenose Dolphin and Beluga Whale) sonar signals and digitally store them to a PC hard drive. The device had the capability of capturing sonar signals by means of a two-hydrophone array, and a digital video camera in a submersible housing. …
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Isolation and Genomic Analysis of the Cetacean Y-chromosome
… Y-chromosomes from the killer whale and bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) were screened for sequences containing microsatellite motifs. 15 and 10 male-specific microsatellites were identified from the killer whale and bottlenose dolphin, respectively. Additional microsatellite loci …
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Modeling and frequency tracking of marine mammal whistle calls
… related sinusoids. Previous research with bottlenose dolphin whistle calls has produced synthetic whistles that sound too “clean” for use in a covert communications system. Due to the sensitivity of the human auditory system, watermarking schemes that slightly modify the fundamental …
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Modeling and frequency tracking of marine mammal whistle calls
… related sinusoids. Previous research with bottlenose dolphin whistle calls has produced synthetic whistles that sound too "clean" for use in a covert communications system. Due to the sensitivity of the human auditory system, watermarking schemes that slightly modify the fundamental …
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A stochastic measure of similarity between dolphin signature whistles
Bottlenose dolprlin (Tursiops trunratus) whistles are currently studied by subjective visual comparison of whistle spectrograms. This thesis describes the novel use of stochastic modeling to automate the comparison of dolphin whistles and to yield an objective, quantitative measure of whistle …
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Using Personality Traits to Predict Pectoral Fin Contact Initiation Role in Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
… and maintenance of social relationships between dolphins (Dudzinski & Ribic, 2017). Additionally, several studies have shown that bottlenose dolphins have distinct personalities that are consistent across time and situation (e.g., Highfill & Kuczaj, 2007; Kuczaj, Highfill, & Byerly, 2012), and it …
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Adapting Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for Behavioral Research with Coastal Marine Mammals
… of coastal marine mammals, in particular, the bottlenose dolphin (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>) and the Endangered Antillean manatee (<em>Trichechus manatus manatus</em>). The conservation and management of marine mammals can be resource-intensive and challenging, often resulting in a lack of …
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Social Interactions Among Two Males in a Captive Group of Rough-Toothed Dolphins (<i>Steno bredanesis</i>)
… known about the social behavior of rough-toothed dolphins<em> </em>(<em>Steno </em>bredanensis) particularly in comparison to information on the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, (<em>Tursiops truncates</em>). The purpose of the current study is to describe the social behavior of two juvenile male …
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The Nature of Social Relationships in Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>): Associations and the Role of Affiliative, Agonistic, and Socio-Sexual Behaviors
… occur on a day-to-day basis between dyads of bottlenose dolphins (<em>Tursiops truncatus</em>). This thesis assesses proximity between dyads (~ 2 meters) and the proportion of time that is spent in either an affiliative, agonistic, or socio-sexual context within age/sex pairings of dolphins in …
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