Pygmy blue whale – Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda
Spectrograms
Sound clips
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Note: Some of these sounds are below the human hearing range and hence inaudible unless sped up.
References
Recalde-Salas, A., Salgado Kent, C. P., Parsons, M. J. G., Marley, S. A., and McCauley, R. D. (2014). Non-song vocalizations of pygmy blue whales in Geographe Bay, Western Australia. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135(5), EL213-EL218.
Gavrilov, A., McCauley, R., Salgado-Kent, C., Tripovich, J., and Burton, C. (2011). Vocal characteristics of pygmy blue whales and their change over time. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(6), 3651-3660, doi: 10.1121/1.3651817.
Sound clips courtesy of Angela Recalde Salas. Photos by Chandra Salgado-Kent and Centre for Whale Research.
References Selected publications
McCauley RD, Gavrilov AN, Jolliffe CD, Ward R, Gill PC (2018) Pygmy blue and Antarctic blue whale presence, distribution and population parameters in southern Australia based on passive acoustics. Deep-Sea Res II: Top Stud Oceanogr:154-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.09.006
Jolliffe CD, McCauley RD, Gavrilov AN, Jenner KCS, Jenner M-NM, Duncan AJ (2019) Song variation of the South Eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whale population in the Perth Canyon, Western Australia. PLOS ONE 14 (1):e0208619. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208619
Jolliffe CD, McCauley RD, Gavrilov AN, Jenner C, Jenner MN (2021) Comparing the acoustic behaviour of the Eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whale on two Australian feeding grounds. Acoust Aust 49:331-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40857-021-00229-2
Davenport AM, Erbe C, Jenner M-NM, Jenner KCS, Saunders BJ, McCauley RD (2022) Pygmy blue whale diving behaviour reflects song structure. J Mar Sci Eng 10 (9):1227. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10091227