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Laela S. Sayigh
Researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Publications - 47
Citations - 2850
Laela S. Sayigh is an academic researcher from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bottlenose dolphin & Biology. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 41 publications receiving 2471 citations. Previous affiliations of Laela S. Sayigh include University of North Carolina at Wilmington & University of Pennsylvania.
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Signature whistle shape conveys identity information to bottlenose dolphins.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that bottlenose dolphins extract identity information from signature whistles even after all voice features have been removed from the signal, ensuring that dolphins are the only animals other than humans that have been shown to transmit identity information independent of the caller's voice or location.
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Individual recognition in wild bottlenose dolphins: a field test using playback experiments.
Laela S. Sayigh,Peter L. Tyack,Randall S. Wells,Andrew R. Solow,Michael D. Scott,A. B. Irvine +5 more
TL;DR: Playback experiments with wild bottlenose dolphins suggest that signature whistles are used for individual recognition, and it is predicted that mothers would respond more strongly to the whistles of their own independent offspring than to the whistle of a familiar, similar-aged nonoffspring.
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Signature whistles of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus: stability and mother-offspring comparisons
TL;DR: Analysis of whistle exchanges from 12 mothercalf pairs shows that signature whistles can remain stable for periods up to at least 12 years, and hypothesize that sex differences in whistle vocalizations may reflect differences in the roles males and females play in the social structure of the community.
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Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus.
Arik Kershenbaum,Arik Kershenbaum,Daniel T. Blumstein,Marie A. Roch,Çağlar Akçay,Gregory A. Backus,Mark A. Bee,Kirsten M. Bohn,Yan Cao,Gerald G. Carter,Cristiane Cäsar,Michael H. Coen,Stacy L. DeRuiter,Laurance R. Doyle,Shimon Edelman,Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho,Todd M. Freeberg,Ellen C. Garland,Morgan L. Gustison,Heidi E. Harley,Chloé Huetz,Melissa Hughes,Julia Hyland Bruno,Amiyaal Ilany,Dezhe Z. Jin,Michael T. Johnson,Chenghui Ju,Jeremy Karnowski,Bernard Lohr,Marta B. Manser,Brenda McCowan,Eduardo Mercado,Peter M. Narins,Alex K. Piel,Megan G. Rice,Roberta Salmi,Kazutoshi Sasahara,Laela S. Sayigh,Yu Shiu,Charles T. Taylor,Edgar E. Vallejo,Sara Waller,Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez,Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez +43 more
TL;DR: A uniform, systematic, and comprehensive approach to studying sequences is proposed, with the goal of clarifying research terms used in different fields, and facilitating collaboration and comparative studies.
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Communication in bottlenose dolphins: 50 years of signature whistle research
Vincent M. Janik,Laela S. Sayigh +1 more
TL;DR: The history of signature whistle research is reviewed, covering definitions, acoustic features, information content, contextual use, developmental aspects, and species comparisons with mammals and birds.