Questions tagged [cetacean]
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Cetacean clicks: species recognition
I'm trying to undestand at which species could belong these clicks. I attach the Raven Pro view.
Could someone have an idea?
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Help identifying a marine mammal from near Port Townsend, Washington, USA
The sighting is in this creative commons repo I am curating: https://huggingface.co/datasets/DORI-SRKW/DORI-Orcasound/blob/main/data/rpi-port-townsend_2020_05_18_12_31_31.flac
The whistles start at ...
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How does cetacean echolocation sound inside a submersible?
To be more specific: assuming an inner and outer hull, with the in-between gap partially serving as a ballast tank, would the transition from water to metal to air/water to metal to air:
a) amplify or ...
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Can't hear my .wav files in PAMGuard, issues with loading spectrogram
I'm relatively new to using PAMGuard, and I'm not sure how to address that I can't hear the .wav files that make up my dataset on the application.
The audio files were recorded in the Salish Sea using ...
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Wavelets Versus FFT for Cetacean Vocalizations
What would be the main advantages of wavelets, such as Daubechies, over an FFT analysis for researching cetacean vocalizations?
Would one of the advantages be the exposure of micro-structures in ...
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Suggestions of Acoustic Monitoring Equipment for a Whale Sanctuary
There are a few sanctuaries being setup to care for cetaceans that were in harsh captivity settings. One is in Iceland and another to be in Nova Scotia. I am not currently related to any sanctuary ...
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Simultaneous whistles and clicks?
Does anybody know if cetaceans can produce simultaneous click and whistle sounds?
In case they can't, if a recording shows simultaneous clicks and whistle sound can we infer that there are, at least, ...
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Library of odontocete vocalisation properties/characteristics
I'm looking at echolocation clicks of an odontocete species and want to compare the properties/characteristics of the clicks to other odontocete species. I'm aware of sound libraries such as DOSITS ...
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Powered speaker recommendations for listening to cetacean vocalizations
I am seeking recommendations for powered speakers with a flat frequency response.
For example, I work with
animals who produce low-frequency (<125 Hz) vocalizations (e.g., blue and fin whales)
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