Correction: Vocalisations of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) in the Bremer Canyon, Western Australia
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There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The 2015 data collection was supported by the SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Conservation Fund (http://swbg-conservationfund.org/). Authors who received the funding were CE and LF. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Copyright: © 2015 Wellard et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Vocalisations of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) in the Bremer Canyon, Western Australia
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