Killer whale – Orcinus orca

Spectrograms

Sound clips

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References

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

Recordings are publicly available here:

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.

For Antarctic killer whales, see:

Wellard, R., Pitman, R. L., Durban, J., and Erbe, C. (2020). Cold call: the acoustic repertoire of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, Type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Royal Society Open Science, 7(2), 191228, doi: 10.1098/rsos.191228.

Recordings are publicly available here:

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.