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    Whale and porpoise voices : a phonograph record

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    Booklet (6.273Mb)
    Record jacket (1.244Mb)
    Track 01-Introduction (25.86Mb)
    Track 02-Inia geoffrensis (10.45Mb)
    Track 03-Delphinus bairdi (10.89Mb)
    Track 04-Delphinus delphis (7.675Mb)
    Track 05-Stenella styx (11.02Mb)
    Track 06-Stenella plagiodon (8.907Mb)
    Track 07-Tursiops truncatus (8.705Mb)
    Track 08-Lagenorhynchus acutus (11.44Mb)
    Track 09-Lagenorhynchus albirostris (11.06Mb)
    Track 10-Pseudorca crassidens (13.40Mb)
    Track 11-Globicephala melaena (13.88Mb)
    Track 12-Globicephala macrorhyncha (9.048Mb)
    Track 13-Globicephala scammoni (7.507Mb)
    Track 14-Grampus griseus (8.837Mb)
    Track 15-Delphinapterus leucas (9.048Mb)
    Track 16-Physeter catodon (10.85Mb)
    Track 17-Eubalaena glacialis (11.54Mb)
    Track 18-Megaptera novaeangliae (12.02Mb)
    Track 19-Balaenoptera physalus (12.71Mb)
    Date
    1962
    Author
    Schevill, William E.  Concept link
    Watkins, William A.  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7431
    Keyword
     Porpoises; Whales; Animal sounds 
    Abstract
    The vocal sounds of cetaceans are a little known and even less understood feature of the complex adaptation of these animals, whose ancestors lived on the dry land, to an entirely aquatic existence. Even in the clearest surface waters, sight is limited to about a hundred feet or less in daytime, and visibility ranges are mostly negligibly short for fast-swimming animals, so that they are effectively partly or wholly blinded. Therefore sound and hearing have an especially important place in their lives. Sound is used not only in direct communication, but also to a large degree in navigation and hunting (echo-location). The excerpts presented here are samples of such sounds made by eighteen species, all obtained by eavesdropping in the open sea (except for the Inia selection, which was made in captivity). These recordings have not been speeded up or slowed down, and so are true in natural frequency and time; there has been no editing or filtering except as noted.
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    Includes accompanying booklet and image of record jacket
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    Recording, acoustical: Schevill, William E., Watkins, William A., "Whale and porpoise voices : a phonograph record", 1962, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7431
     

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