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Study of behaviours and emitted codas during sperm whales social interactions

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Sperm whales live in the matrilineal population structure based on complex social interactions. Groups of 10-20 adult females stay together and raise their offspring. During social activities, they emit specific patterned time sequences of clicks, called codas. These codas are also the social unit acoustic signature. However, no associations were already done between these emitted sounds and behaviours. To answer this question, we used a dataset including simultaneous video and acoustic recordings during sperm whale activities close to the sea surface. In 2017 and 2018, 114 days of observations for 25h33min was done. A total of 1,810 behaviours and of 1,324 codas were extracted. We analyzed their internal structures, based of number of clicks and also the variation of inter-click intervals. Results showed firstly that the 8-clicks codas were the most frequent sequences for this social unit, and secondly that codas seems to be call and contact signals for this haptic species.

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hal-03230838 , version 1 (26-05-2021)

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Olivier Adam, Adrien Yernaux, Marie Sauvêtre, Justine Ngosso, Gregory Nuel, et al.. Study of behaviours and emitted codas during sperm whales social interactions. e-Forum Acusticum 2020, Dec 2020, Lyon, France. pp.3225-3227, ⟨10.48465/fa.2020.1088⟩. ⟨hal-03230838⟩
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