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New Zealand bottlenose dolphins have regional accents

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Bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound whistle differently than ones near Great Barrier Island. The two populations studied showed clear differences in the style, duration and pitch of their acoustic communications, a pattern that has been noticed in other marine mammal populations globally. In this study, the Doubtful Sound dolphins displayed a more complicated whistle repertoire. 

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conference: New Zealand Journal of Zoology
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Organisation/s: Massey University, University of Otago
Funder: This work was supported by National Geographic Society under Grant number WW-197ER-17 and a Massey University Doctoral Scholarship.
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