Minke Whale

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Title Minke Whale
Common Name Minke Whale
Scientific Name Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Craniata
Class mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Balaenopteridae
Genus Balaenoptera
Subject Mammals; Nature sounds
Creator National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Media Rights Management Audio file is public domain
Publisher Western Soundscape Archive, University of Utah
Type Sound
Format video/mp4
Digitization Specifications Compressed from .wav format into .mp4 delivery format
Contributing Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
Description Recording of a Minke Whale sped up by a factor of ten
Photo Rights Management Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries Service, Protected Resources Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center; Photo retrieved from http://swfsc.noaa.gov/gallery.aspx?&ParentMenuId=147&folder_id=702
Note The recorded signal has been sped up by a factor of ten; NOAA describes the recording: "Atlantic minke whale call... Minke whales produce a variety of sounds described as thump trains, ratchets, clicks and grunts (Winn and Perkins 1976; T.J. Thompson et al. 1979, Richardson et al. 1995). In the Atlantic Ocean, Beamish and Mitchell (1973) recorded click series, while Edds-Walton (1999) recorded frequency-modulated 400 msec downsweeps at around 80 Hz. In Antarctic waters, 200-300 msec low-frequency (130 - 60 Hz) downsweeps were recorded by Schevill and Watkins (1972). Analysis of our Atlantic data is still underway, but to date we have recorded pulsive calls sweeping from around 50-35 Hz." Description of recording taken from NOAA website on February 22, 2010 at: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/sound01/background/seasounds/seasounds.html; Recording Date: circa between 1990 and 2009
Full Nature Serve Report http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchSpeciesUid=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.792167
ARK ark:/87278/s6pv6zsh
Setname uu_wss
ID 1119051
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pv6zsh