The multiple functions of male song within the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) mating system: review, evaluation, and synthesis

LM Herman - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Humpback whales (M egaptera novaeangliae) are seasonal breeders, annually migrating
from high‐latitude summer feeding grounds to low‐latitude winter breeding grounds. The …

Common and Antarctic minke whales: Conservation status and future research directions

D Risch, T Norris, M Curnock… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Minke whales comprise some of the most widely distributed species of baleen whales, some
populations of which are still regularly targeted by commercial whaling. Here, we review the …

ORCA-SPOT: An automatic killer whale sound detection toolkit using deep learning

C Bergler, H Schröter, RX Cheng, V Barth, M Weber… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Large bioacoustic archives of wild animals are an important source to identify reappearing
communication patterns, which can then be related to recurring behavioral patterns to …

Biogeographic characterization of blue whale song worldwide: using song to identify populations

MA McDonald, SL Mesnick… - Journal of cetacean …, 2006 - escholarship.org
Blue whale songs provide a measure for characterising worldwide blue whale population
structure. These songs are divided into nine regional types, which maintain a stable …

Behavioral context of call production by eastern North Pacific blue whales

EM Oleson, J Calambokidis, WC Burgess… - Marine Ecology …, 2007 - int-res.com
We assessed the behavioral context of calls produced by blue whales Balaenoptera
musculus off the California coast based on acoustic, behavioral, and dive data obtained …

Acoustic properties of humpback whale songs

WWL Au, AA Pack, MO Lammers, LM Herman… - The Journal of the …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
A vertical array of five hydrophones was used to measure the acoustic field in the vertical
plane of singing humpback whales. Once a singer was located, two swimmers with snorkel …

[PDF][PDF] The interspeech 2019 computational paralinguistics challenge: Styrian dialects, continuous sleepiness, baby sounds & orca activity

B Schuller, A Batliner, C Bergler, FB Pokorny… - 2019 - opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de
Abstract The INTERSPEECH 2019 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge addresses four
different problems for the first time in a research competition under well-defined conditions …

Seasonality of blue and fin whale calls and the influence of sea ice in the Western Antarctic Peninsula

A Širović, JA Hildebrand, SM Wiggins… - Deep Sea Research …, 2004 - Elsevier
The calling seasonality of blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin (B. physalus) whales was
assessed using acoustic data recorded on seven autonomous acoustic recording packages …

Low-frequency whale and seismic airgun sounds recorded in the mid-Atlantic Ocean

SL Nieukirk, KM Stafford, DK Mellinger… - The Journal of the …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Beginning in February 1999, an array of six autonomous hydrophones was moored near the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge (35° N–15° N, 50° W–33° W). Two years of data were reviewed for whale …

Humpback whale abundance in the North Pacific estimated by photographic capture‐recapture with bias correction from simulation studies

J Barlow, J Calambokidis, EA Falcone… - Marine Mammal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We estimated the abundance of humpback whales in the North Pacific by capture‐recapture
methods using over 18,000 fluke identification photographs collected in 2004–2006. Our …