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It is quite natural that individuals of many mammalian species, including humans and dolphins, often have individual vocal reactions. Due to this specificity, animals are aware of the location, the level of arousal or something else about their neighbors. For example, during stress situations dolphins produce stereotyped signalizations (McBride and Kritzler, 1951; Dreher and Evans, 1964; Evans, 1967; Busnel and Dziedzic, 1968). As it was shown in oceanaria, this type of signalization is their own individual signals (Caldwell and Caldwell, 1965, 1968, 1971; Caldwell et al., 1971, 1973 a,b; Sidorova et al., 1990).
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Bel’kovich, V.M., Shchekotov, M.N. (1992). Individual Signals of Belugas Associated with Hunting Behavior in the White Sea. In: Thomas, J.A., Kastelein, R.A., Supin, A.Y. (eds) Marine Mammal Sensory Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3406-8_30
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