Blue Whale

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Title Blue Whale
Common Name Blue Whale
Scientific Name Balaenoptera musculus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Craniata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Balaenopteridae
Genus Balaenoptera
Subject Mammals; Nature sounds
Creator National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Media Rights Management Public domain
Publisher Western Soundscape Archive, University of Utah
Type Sound
Format audio/mpeg
Digitization Specifications Compressed from .wav format into .mp4 delivery format
Contributing Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
Description The vocalization of a Blue Whale; recording was sped up by a factor of ten
Note Date unknown, between 2000 and 2009; The recorded signal has been sped up by a factor of ten; recording was retrieved from the NOAA Vents Program website, which reads: "Western Pacific blue whale calls have been recorded primarily in the northwestern Pacific but also north of Hawaii and in the offshore northeast Pacific (Thompson and Friedl 1982, Stafford and Fox 1996). They are generally a one to two-part frequency modulated moan that lasts about 20s with frequencies from 23 to 20 Hz"; Source: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/whales/sounds/sounds_whales_blue.html
Full Nature Serve Report http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchSpeciesUid=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.101880
ARK ark:/87278/s69p3f2m
Setname uu_wss
ID 1118845
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69p3f2m