Killer whale – Orcinus orca

Killer whales
Killer Whales
Killer Whales

Spectrograms

 

Orca spectogram
Orca spectogram
Orca spectogram
Orca spectogram

Sound clips

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Data download

Wellard, R., Erbe, C., Fouda, L., and Blewitt, M. (2015). Data from: Vocalisations of killer whales (Orcinusorca) in the Bremer Canyon, Western Australia: Dryad Data Repository.

Wellard, R.; Pitman, R.; Durban, J.; Erbe, C. (2020). Cold call: the acoustic repertoire of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, Type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.37pvmcvfr

Sound clips courtesy of Rebecca Wellard. Photos by Christine Erbe.

References Selected publications

Wellard R, Erbe C, Fouda L, Blewitt M (2015) Vocalisations of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Bremer Canyon, Western Australia. PLOS ONE 10 (9):e0136535. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136535

Wellard R, Lightbody K, Fouda L, Blewitt M, Riggs D, Erbe C (2016) Killer whale (Orcinus orca) predation on beaked whales (Mesoplodon spp.) in the Bremer Sub-Basin, Western Australia. PLOS ONE 11 (12):e0166670. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166670

Salgado Kent C, Bouchet P, Wellard R, Parnum I, Fouda L, Erbe C (2020) Seasonal productivity drives aggregations of killer whales and other cetaceans over submarine canyons of the Bremer Sub-Basin, south-western Australia. Australian Mammalogy 43 (2):168-178. https://doi.org/10.1071/AM19058

Wellard R, Pitman RL, Durban J, Erbe C (2020) Cold call: the acoustic repertoire of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, Type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. R Soc Open Sci 7 (2):191228. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191228