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  • 1
    ISSN: 1748-7692
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Dives of a 12-m sperm whale (Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758) were tracked in the southeast Caribbean by long range, 30 MHz radio tag with dive-profile telemetry over 4.6 d, 26 April-1 May 1995. Over the 295-km track, average speed was 0.7 m/sec (2.6 km/h). Of 158 dives (defined as submergences longer than 3 min), 65 were shallow (〈200 m). The 93 deep dives averaged 990 m (range 420–1,330 m) in depth, and 44.4 min in duration (range 18.2–65.3 min). Water depth was at least 200 m deeper than the whale dive depth. The whale was engaged in activities at or near the surface, shallow dives, and deep dives during 22.6%, 23.4%, and 54% of the time, respectively. Depth and duration of dives were correlated, but there was little relationship between the length or depth of dives with the duration of surfacings either before or after dives. Deep dives occurred day and night. In 44.4% of the deep dives, the vertical movement of descents and ascents was interrupted at intermediate depths, lengthening these dives by an average of 10.8 min. During dives without stops at intermediate depths, descents averaged 11 min at 1.52 m/sec, and ascents averaged 11.8 min at 1.4 m/sec.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1748-7692
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Three 12-m sperm whales (Physeter catodon) were tagged and tracked west of Dominica in the southeast Caribbean to follow the surfacing patterns and movements of these presumed subadult males. Whale N was tagged in April 1993 with a 30-MHz radio tag and tracked for two days. Whale H was tagged in April 1995 with a 30-MHz radio tag and tracked for 4.6 d. Whale A was tagged in April 1995 with a satellite-monitored tag tracked by ARGOS for 21.5 d, the first four of which were concurrent with the tracking of Whale H, an associate. The tagged whales remained west of Dominica for at least 2, 5, and 13 d, respectively. Whales N and A then moved southward to waters off Martinique. There were no apparent effects on the whales by tagging or the presence of the tags. The whales averaged speeds of 2.6-3.5 km/h. Surfacings, indicated by tag signals, were of two types: short surfacings apparently primarily for respiration, averaging 7-10.5 min between repeated longer dives, occurring day and night; and extended surfacings seemingly for rest and social interactions with conspecifics, occurring mostly in daylight. Whales were near the surface for 20.4%–22.6% of the total time (26.6%–27.1% during the day and 14.9%–17.1% at night). Delayed blowing was observed as Whale N surfaced for 8.3 min between 47- and 45-min dives but delayed the first of its 31 blows for 1.5 min after surfacing.
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    Marine mammal science 9 (1993), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1748-7692
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract: Two sperm whales tagged with acoustic transponder tags were tracked by sonar during a cruise from 16 to 30 October 1991 in the southeast Caribbean west of Dominica Island. The whales dove to depths of 400–600 m and more, including a dive to 1,185 m and one possibly to 2,000 m. They were tracked for periods of 3–14 h, over distances of 8.5–40 km. The tagged whales were found together four and eight days after tagging, and were tracked simultaneously for 13 h, over 31 km. Whale movements on different days at the surface averaged from 0.68 to 0.82 m/set, with dive descent rates from 0.82 to 1.13 m/set, ascent rates from 0.74 to 1.16 m/set, and horizontal movement during dives from 0.76 to 1.29 m/set. Dives lasted from 18 min to 1 h and 13 min, averaging 33 and 41 min on different days. Every track ended when tag signals became obscured at night by dense biological scatterers concentrated in offshore areas where the whales were diving. Both tagged whales appear to have been males of 15 and 11m, each dominant in different groups; but when together the larger whale was dominant, as evidenced by chases and agonistic vocalizations. The whales did not appear to react to the tags or to the sounds associated with tracking (30, 32, and 36 kHz).
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Marine mammal science 12 (1996), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1748-7692
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Digital archiving of bioacoustic data provides both curatorial and scientific benefits. To realize these benefits, key system requirements must be satisfied. This report discusses these requirements, and describes the software tools developed by the WHOI bioacoustic laboratory to maintain and utilize an archive of digitized biological sounds. These tools are written in standard C code, and are designed to run on PC-compatible microcomputers. Both the usage and structure of these programs are described in relation to the SOUND database of marine animal sounds. These tools include software for analog-to-digital conversion, text header maintenance, data verification and interactive spectrographic review. Source code listings are supplied.
    Description: Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research through the Ocean Acoustics Program (code 11250) Contract N00014-88-K-0273 and Grant N00014-J-1445 with supplemental support from NOARL (code 211).
    Keywords: Marine animal sounds ; Database management ; Digital animal sound cuts
    Repository Name: Woods Hole Open Access Server
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: May also be cited as: WHOI-00-12
    Description: The seasonal distribution of calling ble whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (B. physalus), and singing humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) has been analyzed from acoustic data recorded by the U.S. Navy Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) and other hydrophone arrays in the North Pacific. The data from ten arrays were selected as representative of four Regions along the continental margins, labeled Northwest (NW), NorthCentral (NC), Northeast (NE), and Southeast (SE). The call data indicate that there is a substantial population of blue whales scattered over the North Pacific and concentrated during the Fall season in the NW and NC Regions. Blue whale calls are recorded in all seasons, particularly in these NW and NC Regions. Fin whales are found in groups but also in relatively large numbers in all Regions, with most calling in the Winter season and in the NC Region, while calling is absent in most Regions during Summer. Fin whale calling includes "F" calls from individuals heard in all seasons and "J" calls from too many whales to separate, particularly prominent in the winter reproductive season. Humpback singing is recorded most in the both the NC and SE Regions between the 1996-1997 and 1998-2000 periods.
    Description: Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N00014-96-1-1130 CNO-N45 Environmental Program and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (DCA87-00/H-0026) with funds from the Department of Defense Legacy Reseource Management Program.
    Keywords: North Pacific whales ; Calling whales ; Balaenoptera musculus ; Megaptera novaeangliae
    Repository Name: Woods Hole Open Access Server
    Type: Technical Report
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    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Cover and title page missing from original document.
    Description: The Marine Animal SOUND Database system encompasses (1) descriptive text databases cataoging the WHOI collection of underwater sound recordings from marine animal, (2) sets of files of digital sound sequences, (3) text database organizing the digital sound sequences, and (4) software for analysis, display, playback, and export of selected sound files. The text databases index and sort the information on the sounds. The digital sound files are accessed directly from the text record, analyzed on screen, listened to, and compared or exported as desired. These databases provide comprehensive means for quantitative analyses and statistical comparisons of marine animal vocalizations. The objective has been to develop basic tools for the study of marine animal sounds. The text database for cataloging the collection of recordings provides convenient sorting and selection of sounds of interest. Then, as specific sequences are digitized from these recordigs, they become part of a second database system that manages these sound data. Once a digital sound is part of the database, several tools are available for interactive spectrogram display, sound playback, statistical feature extraction, and export to other application programs.
    Description: Support for the development of the Marine Animal SOUND Databases has been from the Ocean Acoustics Program (code 11250A) of the Office of Naval Research, Contract NOOOI4-88-K-0273 and Research Grant NOOOI4-91-J-1445, with supplementary support through NOARL (code 211). The program of bioacoustic studies that provided much of the previous work resulting in our acoustic recordings of marine life was also supported for a considerable period by the Oceanic Biology Program of ONR.
    Keywords: Sound database ; Marine animals ; Underwater sounds ; Animal vocalizations
    Repository Name: Woods Hole Open Access Server
    Type: Technical Report
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © Inter-Research, 2009. This article is posted here by permission of Inter-Research for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Marine Ecology Progress Series 395 (2009): 37-53, doi:10.3354/meps08362.
    Description: A 6 yr time series of blue whale Balaenoptera musculus and fin whale B. physalus call detections in the North Pacific Ocean was correlated with 3 oceanographic variables (sea-surface temperature, chlorophyll a concentration, and mixed layer depth), to investigate the broad-scale calling behavior of these species. Monthly values for satellite-derived oceanographic data and whale call data were compared for 4 regions (30° longitude by 15° of latitude) encompassing the whole subarctic North Pacific and an area in the temperate northeastern Pacific. To determine predictive models for whale call occurrence, generalized linear models were used to determine which, if any, oceanographic variables might influence whale calling behavior over such broad space and time scales. Sea-surface temperature was the best oceanographic variable for predicting whale call detections for both species and all regions.
    Description: Funding over the years was provided by SERDP through SPAWAR (D. Conlon), the Marine Mammal Program of the Office of Naval Research (R. Gisiner, N00014- 96-1-1130), the Chief of Naval Operations Environmental Program N45 (F. Stone and E. Young), the US Army Corps of Engineers (DCA87-00-H-0026), funding from the Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program and from the Naval Postgraduate School (C. Collins, N00244-07-1-0017 to K.M.S. and N00244-07-1-0014 to M.A.D.).
    Keywords: Blue whale ; Fin whale ; North Pacific ; Acoustics ; Oceanography
    Repository Name: Woods Hole Open Access Server
    Type: Article
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Calls of killer whales, Orcinus orca, were analyzed using computed sound features to classify sound patterns and identify call similarties. Calls were classified and separated according to the podfamily group within clans identified previously by John Ford (U. BC) in the Vancouver whale populations. Acoustic characteristics of the same call type from different individuals were extremely similar, so that discriminating these different sounds was the goal. The WHOI AcouStat program and associated database systems were used to define numerical statistics for each call, and then, these were compared to sort and classify the sounds. The results were in agreement with Ford's descriptions of the calls derived from visual inspection of sound spectrograms of calls. The classification analyses demonstrated that although specific shared calls from different killer whales were much alike, they could be sorted by the pod/subpod of the whales producing the calls. A typical analysis, for example, of the N4 call from Clan A (Vancouver, BC), classified 97% of the calls correctly according to the pod/family of the whales producing the calls. Remaining calls were variant, and likely a result of individual differences in call sounds. Similar classification analysis were tested on unsorted, unalyzed recordings from different populations of whales, and these too could be distinguished, with 98.5% correct separation of the calls.
    Keywords: Killer whale calls ; Sound classification ; Whale sound analysis ; Orcinus orca
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  • 10
    Publication Date: 2022-05-26
    Description: This documentation for the CETACEA database of marine mammal literature references updates and expands the original work by Watkins, Bird, Moore, and Tyack 1988 (Reference Database Marine Mammal Literature, Technical Report WHOI-88-2). The CETACEA database is a comprehensive index of literature references used to file, store, search, retrieve, and format the data on marine animals. Organization of the references is complementary to features developed by William E. Schevill for his library of older cetacea literature, having direct association of species with over 300 indexed subjects, and with observation dates, locations, etc. This documentation describes the operation of the database (360 records), including indexing, sorting, and retrieval information developed though continued use of these systems. SPECIES and SUBJECT HEADING lists with their codes have been updated. Other databases have also developed around these indexing and sorting strategies to complement the CETACEA database, including databases of animal sounds for both the recordng data and the acoustic spectral information stored in libraries of digital sound cuts.
    Description: Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research through Contract Number N00014-88-K-0273.
    Keywords: Marine mammal references ; Database of marine mammal literatue ; Literature reference database
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    Type: Technical Report
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