Peter Tyack
Preferred Name: Peter L Tyack
EMERITUS RESEARCH SCHOLAR
BIOLOGY
Email:
ptyack@whoi.edu
Phone: 508 289 2818
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mail Stop 50
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
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.
