Southern right whale vocalizations on foraging grounds in South Georgia

Calderan, Susannah V.; Leaper, Russell C.; Miller, Brian S.; Andriolo, Artur; Buss, Danielle L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5362-240X; Carroll, Emma L.; Kennedy, Amy S.; Stepien, Emilie N.; Jackson, Jennifer A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4158-1924. 2021 Southern right whale vocalizations on foraging grounds in South Georgia. JASA Express Letters, 1 (6), 061202. 9, pp. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005433

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Abstract/Summary

Southern right whale vocalizations were recorded concurrently with visual observations off the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia, and the characteristics of these calls were described. Calls were also compared to those of humpback whales at South Georgia, to determine how the two species might reliably be distinguished acoustically. The southern right whale calls measured (which were all upcalls) had lower frequency with peak energy and were mostly shorter in duration than the calls measured from humpback whales. The frequency upsweep and the lack of harmonics of southern right whale calls were also diagnostic characteristics.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005433
ISSN:	2691-1191
Date made live:	25 Jun 2021 12:48 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530232

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005433

ISSN:

2691-1191

Date made live:

25 Jun 2021 12:48 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530232