Spatial-temporal dynamics of a local population of Black Sea Bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus ponticus barabash, 1940): visual and acoustic methods of description
Journal: Океанология
Year: 2019

This work is devoted to research of the Sudak – Novy Svet (Crimea) local population of Black Sea Bottlenose dolphins. Observations and acoustic records were carried out all the year round in 2014 and 2015. Along with visual identification of individuals, for the first time in our country the method of «acoustic identification» was applied (according to the made catalog of «signature whistles»). «Signature whistles» are defined as tonal signals having a frequency contour, unique for each animal,