# McCowan 1999: Quantitative tools for comparing animal communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenose dolphin whistle repertoires

> Brenda McCowan, Sean F. Hanser, Laurance R. Doyle, 1999. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Listed in the citation index of the bioinformatics…

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# Quantitative tools for comparing animal communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenose dolphin whistle repertoires

Brenda McCowan, Sean F. Hanser, Laurance R. Doyle, 1999. _Animal Behaviour_.

Applies information-theory measures such as Zipf slopes and entropy to bottlenose dolphin whistle repertoires, as tools for comparing animal communication systems.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1006/anbe.1998.1000](https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1998.1000)** Checked against the original0

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McCowan, B., Hanser, S. F., & Doyle, L. R. (1999). Quantitative tools for comparing animal communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenose dolphin whistle repertoires. Animal Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1998.1000
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