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  • Two new grey whale call types detected on bioacoustic tags

  • Anaid López-Urbán, Aaron Thode, Carmen Bazúa Durán, Jorge UrbáN-R, Steven Swartz
  • Journal:
    Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom / Volume 98 / Issue 5 / August 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 December 2016, pp. 1169-1175

  • Between 2008 and 2010, 27 acoustic tags were applied to various age and reproductive classes of grey whales in Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico, a part of the Biosphere Reserve ‘El Vizcaino’. Besides previously described S1 and S3 calls, two additional calls were identified: the impulsive S8 call and the slightly frequency-modulated S9 call. These two additional S8 and S9 calls are by far the most common grey whale sounds detected on tags, even though contemporary bottom-mounted acoustic recordings also collected from the lagoon in 2008 yielded no S8 or S9 calls. The new S8 and old S3 calls display similar spectral maxima, even though the S3 is a frequency-modulated harmonic call and the S8 is a broadband impulsive call. This spectral analysis provides evidence that these new call types are not artefacts arising from mechanical vibration or flow noise.