Bioacoustics of Cetacea

Recordings

180 in audioBlast.

iNat375569125 Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)

age02 2026-06-26 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat377050648 Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)

annahd 2026-06-30 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat127831100 Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus)

Светлана Царахова 2022-07-21 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat127831100 Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus)

Светлана Царахова 2022-07-21 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat174025847 Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)

Pete Siminski 2023-07-16 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat244197941 Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)

Science and Education Coordinator MS FRAM 2024-09-15 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat36736408 Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Evan Trotzuk 2019-12-17 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat36942066 Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Evan Trotzuk 2019-12-24 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat37900584 Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Tuoichen 2016-02-23 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat40897361 Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Tuoichen 2017-07-27 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat55835696 Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

David Martin 2014-09-14 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat61132815 Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Paritosh A 2019-12-21 iNaturalist listen › record

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References

Publications audioBlast links to this taxon.

• Nummela, Sirpa; Thewissen, J. G. M.; Bajpai, Sunil; Hussain, S. Taseer; Kumar, Kishor (2004) Eocene evolution of whale hearing
  doi:10.1038/nature02720
• Urmy, Samuel S.; Benoit-Bird, Kelly J.; Ryan, John P.; Cline, Danelle E. (2018) Continuous monitoring and classification of odontocete echolocation clicks from an ocean observatory
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144, 1922 - 1922
  doi:10.1121/1.5068416
• Houser, Dorian S.; Coffinger, Sean P.; Mulsow, Jason; Finneran, James J.; Burkard, Robert F. (2018) Impact of stimulus bandwidth on the estimate of the upper-frequency limit of hearing in toothed whales
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144, 1740 - 1740
  doi:10.1121/1.5067717
• Burnham, Rianna E. (2018) Listening to whales: Tying acoustics to ecology
  PhD
• Liu, Songzuo; Liu, Meng; Wang, Mengjia; Ma, Tianlong; Qing, Xin (2018) Classification of Cetacean Whistles Based on Convolutional Neural Network
  2018 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP)2018 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP)
  doi:10.1109/WCSP.2018.8555732

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

Source	Its name	Its rank	Its family	Record
BAbio.acousti.ca	Cetacea	Infraorder	—	bio.acousti.ca/1725
Plazi	Cetacea	Order	—	Plazi/Cetacea
iNaturalist	Cetacea	Infraorder	—	iNaturalist/152871

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

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