Echolocation click source parameters of Australian snubfin dolphins (Orcaella heinsohni)

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2018-04-30Author
de Freitas, Mafalda
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Smith, Joshua N.
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Jensen, Frants H.
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Beedholm, Kristian
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Madsen, Peter T.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10497As published
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5034174DOI
10.1121/1.5034174Abstract
The Australian snubfin dolphin (Orcaella heinsohni) is endemic to Australian waters, yet little is known about its abundance and habitat use. To investigate the feasibility of Passive Acoustic Monitoring for snubfin dolphins, biosonar clicks were recorded in Cygnet Bay, Australia, using a four-element hydrophone array. Clicks had a mean source level of 200 ± 5 dB re 1 μPa pp, transmission directivity index of 24 dB, mean centroid frequency of 98 ± 9 kHz, and a root-mean-square bandwidth of 31 ± 3 kHz. Such properties lend themselves to passive acoustic monitoring, but are comparable to similarly-sized delphinids, thus requiring additional cues to discriminate between snubfins and sympatric species.
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Author Posting. © Acoustical Society of America, 2018. This article is posted here by permission of Acoustical Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143 (2018): 2564, doi: 10.1121/1.5034174.