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Marine Mammals

 
 

Note time and frequency scales are not identical. Spectrograms displayed together for a general comparison of images.

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  NE Pacific blue whale spectrogram Western Pacific blue whale spectrogram S Pacific blue whale spectrogram  
 
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Fin Whale
Pacific
 
  Atlantic blue whale spectrogram Atlantic fin whale spectrogram fin whale spectrogram  
   
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    Alaska humpback whale spectrogram 52 Hz spectrogram Atlantic minke spectrogram  
   
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