Name: Example From Plus - One Clan - 5+1 Coda by DominicaSpermWhaleProject
Duration: 9 s
Description: This is an example of a 5+1 coda produced by a sperm whale belonging to the Plus-One Clan from the Galapagos Islands. Recorded by Dr. Luke Rendell

This is an example of a 5+1 coda produced by a sperm whale belonging to the Plus-One Clan from the Galapagos Islands. Recorded by Dr. Luke Rendell

Example From Plus - One Clan - 5+1 Coda

Founded in 2005, The Dominica Sperm Whale Project is an innovative and integrative long-term behavioural study of sperm whales in the Eastern Caribbean. Dr. Shane Gero, and his colleagues, have been documenting the social and vocal behavior of over 20 sperm whale units . Though thousands of hours of observation,  we have come to know the whales as different individuals, as brothers and sisters, as mothers and babysitters, and as a community of families, each with their own way of doing things, living together in the Caribbean Sea. The whales have taught us the minutia of living in a sperm whale family and given us insights into sperm whale social lives, diet, movement habits, genetics, vocal communication, and culture. There is no sperm whale population in the world that has been this well characterized. Over the last ten years, the project has risen to international excellence and integrates collaborators from five top-ranking academic institutions.