Humpback Whale Call Catalogue from CATS Tag 2020 Deployments
Rhonda Reidy, PhD student in the Juanes Lab, deployed CATS tags (CATS Germany) equipment with hydrophones on four humpback whales near Swiftsure Bank in September 2020, recording > 16 hours of audio data. Zoe Molder analyzed the humpback vocalizations from the audio data collected by the CATS tags for her Honours Thesis project, co-supervised by Dr. Francis Juanes and Dr. William Halliday. She classified 32 different vocalization types. This page serves as documentation of those calls. We display a spectrogram and a sound clip from SoundCloud, and also provide wav file clips for download. We hope that this call catalogue will be useful to others studying humpback vocalizations around British Columbia and beyond!
Note that a manuscript that fully describes these calls and other aspects of the bioacoustic analysis was just accepted in the journal Marine Mammal Science.
Rhonda Reidy, PhD student in the Juanes Lab, deployed CATS tags (CATS Germany) equipment with hydrophones on four humpback whales near Swiftsure Bank in September 2020, recording > 16 hours of audio data. Zoe Molder analyzed the humpback vocalizations from the audio data collected by the CATS tags for her Honours Thesis project, co-supervised by Dr. Francis Juanes and Dr. William Halliday. She classified 32 different vocalization types. This page serves as documentation of those calls. We display a spectrogram and a sound clip from SoundCloud, and also provide wav file clips for download. We hope that this call catalogue will be useful to others studying humpback vocalizations around British Columbia and beyond!
Note that a manuscript that fully describes these calls and other aspects of the bioacoustic analysis was just accepted in the journal Marine Mammal Science.
Bark
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Bellow
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Bop
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Compound Call
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Cry
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Droplet
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Growl
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Grunt
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Gunshot
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Hiccup
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Horse
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Knock
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Moan
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Modulated Cry
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Purr
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Roar
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Scream
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Short Moan
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Shriek
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Squeak
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Squeegie
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Swops
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Teepee
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Thwop
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Unknown 1
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Unknown 2
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Unknown 3
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Upsweep
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Whistle
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Whoop
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Whup
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Yaps
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