Humpback whale – Megaptera novaeangliae

Humpback whale
Humpback whale
Humpback whale
Humpback whale

Spectrograms

Humpback whale
Humpback whale
Humpback whale

Sound clips

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Sound clips courtesy of Angela Recalde Salas. Photos courtesy of Sarah Marley, Chandra Salgado Kent and Centre for Whale Research.

References Selected publications

Recalde-Salas A, Erbe C, Salgado Kent C, Parsons M (2020) Non-song vocalizations of humpback whales in Western Australia. Front Mar Sci 7 (141). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00141

Gosby C, Erbe C, Harvey ES, Figueroa Landero MM, McCauley RD (2022) Vocalizing humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrating from Antarctic feeding grounds arrive earlier and earlier in the Perth Canyon, Western Australia. Front Mar Sci 9:1086763. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1086763