An overview of fixed passive acoustic observation methods for cetaceans

DK Mellinger, KM Stafford, SE Moore, RP Dziak… - Oceanography, 2007 - JSTOR
METHODS Fixed passive acoustic surveys require several steps, including survey design,
placement and sometimes recovery of recording instruments, extraction of vocalizations of …

[책][B] The cultural lives of whales and dolphins

H Whitehead, L Rendell - 2014 - degruyter.com
In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …

Biogeographic characterization of blue whale song worldwide: using song to identify populations

MA McDonald, SL Mesnick… - Journal of cetacean …, 2006 - escholarship.org
Blue whale songs provide a measure for characterising worldwide blue whale population
structure. These songs are divided into nine regional types, which maintain a stable …

Behavioral context of call production by eastern North Pacific blue whales

EM Oleson, J Calambokidis, WC Burgess… - Marine Ecology …, 2007 - int-res.com
We assessed the behavioral context of calls produced by blue whales Balaenoptera
musculus off the California coast based on acoustic, behavioral, and dive data obtained …

Blue and fin whale call source levels and propagation range in the Southern Ocean

A Širović, JA Hildebrand, SM Wiggins - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin whales (B. physalus) produce high-intensity, low-
frequency calls, which probably function for communication during mating and feeding. The …

Seasonality of blue and fin whale calls and the influence of sea ice in the Western Antarctic Peninsula

A Širović, JA Hildebrand, SM Wiggins… - Deep Sea Research …, 2004 - Elsevier
The calling seasonality of blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin (B. physalus) whales was
assessed using acoustic data recorded on seven autonomous acoustic recording packages …

Low-frequency whale and seismic airgun sounds recorded in the mid-Atlantic Ocean

SL Nieukirk, KM Stafford, DK Mellinger… - The Journal of the …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Beginning in February 1999, an array of six autonomous hydrophones was moored near the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge (35° N–15° N, 50° W–33° W). Two years of data were reviewed for whale …

[PDF][PDF] Impacts of anthropogenic sound

JA Hildebrand - Marine mammal research: conservation beyond …, 2005 - escholarship.org
THERE IS GROWING CONCERN THAT sound introduced into the sea by human activities
has detrimental effects on marine mammals. For example, mounting evidence suggests that …

Timing is everything: Drivers of interannual variability in blue whale migration

AR Szesciorka, LT Ballance, A Širović, A Rice… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Blue whales need to time their migration from their breeding grounds to their feeding
grounds to avoid missing peak prey abundances, but the cues they use for this are …

Worldwide decline in tonal frequencies of blue whale songs

MA McDonald, JA Hildebrand, S Mesnick - Endangered species …, 2009 - int-res.com
Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus songs can be divided into at least 10 types worldwide,
each type retaining the same units and similar phrasing over decades, unlike humpback …