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Atlantic blue whale call

 
 

Description: Atlantic blue whale calls are narrow-band, low frequency moans (~ 19 Hz, slight downsweep of ~ 1 Hz) that last, on average, 16 s (Edds 1982). This call was recorded on the northeastern phone of the autonomous hydrophone array located along the mid-Atlantic ridge.

Atlantic blue whale call spectrogramClick on spectrogram for full-sized image.

232K wav file(The recorded signal has been sped up 10 times)