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Peter Tyack Peter Tyack
Senior Scientist
Biology

Office Phone: +1 508 289 2818
Fax: +1 508 457 2041
ptyack@whoi.edu


WHOI Mailing Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Marine Research Facility 245, MS#50
Woods Hole, Ma. 02543
Other WHOI Addresses:
Lab: Marine Research Facility 232 (MS# 50)
Lab: Marine Research Facility 234 (MS# 50)
Lab: Marine Research Facility 236 (MS# 50)
Lab: Marine Research Facility 238 (MS# 50)

Education

A.B. Harvard University, 1976, Biology
Ph.D. Rockefeller University, 1982,
Animal Behavior

Research Interests

Social behavior and acoustic communication in cetaceans; vocal learning and mimicry in the natural communication systems of cetaceans; individually distinctive signature signals, vocal learning, and mimicry in the bottlenose dolphin and the sperm whale; acoustic structure and social functions of the songs of baleen whales; responses of cetaceans to human noise; playback to cetaceans of their own and conspecific vocalizations; development of methods to identify which cetacean produces a sound within a social group of conspecifics.

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