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Dr Stephanie King
Research Fellow

Scottish Oceans Institute
 East Sands
 University of St Andrews
 St Andrews
 Fife
 KY16 8LB
 UK

I am currently an honorary research fellow at the University of St Andrews and a senior research scientist at SMRU Ltd. I completed my PhD in the research lab of Dr Vincent Janik,  and my doctoral research investigated the temporal and social aspects of vocal interactions in bottlenose dolphins. Specifically my work has focused on the dolphin’s individually distinctive signature whistle and its use in vocal copying and vocal matching interactions. I have worked extensively with both captive and wild animals and used playback to observe the forms and functions of these vocal behaviours.

My current scientific interests lie in using playback as a tool to understand the function of different call types and the role of imitation of individually distinctive calls as well as the role of social and food-associated calls during dolphin foraging behaviours.

 

Publications

King, SL, Sayigh, L, Wells, R, Fellner, W & Janik, VM 2013, ' Vocal copying of individually distinctive signature whistles in bottlenose dolphins ' Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol 280, no. 1757, 20130053 .
Janik, VM , King, SL, Sayigh, LS & Wells, RS 2013, ' Identifying Signature Whistles from Recordings of Groups of Unrestrained Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) ' Marine Mammal Science , vol 29, no. 1, pp. 109-122.
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