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.