Weddell seal, see Leptonychotes
weddeli
Whale calls, defined, 37
Whale communication sounds, sound
transmission, 41ff
Whale
air recycling, 94
contact calls, 40ff
feeding calls, 40ff
song defined, 37
song in male reproductive display,
37ff
songs features compared, 44
sound communication in deep sound
channel, 32–33
vocalizations and ambient noise
spectra, 45
whistles, Tursiops truncatus, 159ff
White-lined bat, see Saccopteryx
bilineata
404
Index
Whoopgobble, mangeby vocalization,
237
Wind instruments, sound production
and similarities to vocal tract, 82,
83
Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog)
hormone effects on vocalization,
291–292
hormone effects on development of
signal production, 302ff
vocalizations, 298–299
Yellow-naped amazon parrot, see
Amazona auropalliata
Yellow-rumped caiques, see Cacicus
cela vittelinus
Zebra finch, see Taeniopygia guttata
Zenk, auditory function gene, 259