North Pacific minke whales call rapidly when calling conspecifics are nearby
Funding: This research was supported by Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (Code N465JR, Award Number N0007020WR0EP8F) and tool development utilized for this analysis was supported by the U.S. Navy’s Living Marine Resources Program (Award Number N0002520WR0141R). North Pacific minke whale (Balaenoptera a...
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Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) Inter-call interval (ICI) Calling rate Cue rate Bioacoustics Passive acoustic monitoring Animal behavior Marine ecology GC Oceanography QL Zoology DAS SDG 14 - Life Below Water MCC GC QL |
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Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) Inter-call interval (ICI) Calling rate Cue rate Bioacoustics Passive acoustic monitoring Animal behavior Marine ecology GC Oceanography QL Zoology DAS SDG 14 - Life Below Water MCC GC QL Martin, Cameron R. Guazzo, Regina A. Helble, Tyler A. Alongi, Gabriela C. Durbach, Ian N. Martin, Stephen W. Matsuyama, Brian M. Henderson, E. Elizabeth North Pacific minke whales call rapidly when calling conspecifics are nearby |
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Funding: This research was supported by Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (Code N465JR, Award Number N0007020WR0EP8F) and tool development utilized for this analysis was supported by the U.S. Navy’s Living Marine Resources Program (Award Number N0002520WR0141R). North Pacific minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) boing calls are commonly detected in Hawaiian waters. When producing boing vocalizations, minke whales seem to be in one of two calling behavioral states. Most often minke whales produce boings with inter-call intervals of several minutes, but sometimes minke whales call rapidly with inter-call intervals of less than a minute. Since minke whales are difficult to detect visually, cue-rate-based density estimation using passive acoustic monitoring has been proposed. However, the variables that influence cue rate or calling rate are poorly understood in most whales, including minke whales. We collected passive acoustic recordings from 47 bottom-mounted hydrophones at the Pacific Missile Range Facility’s instrumented range off the coast of Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi to test the hypothesis that minke whales call more rapidly when closer in proximity to other calling conspecifics. A total of 599 days of data were recorded between August 2012 and July 2017 and were automatically post-processed to detect, classify, and localize calls. Localized calls were grouped into tracks and manually validated, resulting in 509 individual tracks composed of 36,033 calls within a 16 x 39 km focal study area. Tracked minke whales exhibited a strong bimodal call rate with means of one call every 6.85 min (σ= 2.54 min) and 0.63 min (σ= 0.36 min). We ran hidden Markov models to quantify the relationship between call rate and the distance to the nearest calling conspecific. Overall, the probability of the higher call rate occurring increased as the distance to the nearest conspecific decreased, and the probability of the lower call rate occurring increased as the distance to the nearest conspecific increased. We also examined individual ... |
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North Pacific minke whales call rapidly when calling conspecifics are nearby |
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Frontiers in Marine Science Martin , C R , Guazzo , R A , Helble , T A , Alongi , G C , Durbach , I N , Martin , S W , Matsuyama , B M & Henderson , E E 2022 , ' North Pacific minke whales call rapidly when calling conspecifics are nearby ' , Frontiers in Marine Science , vol. 9 , 897298 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.897298 2296-7745 PURE: 281195447 PURE UUID: 70eaaf37-a86e-490c-a6c6-27392caaae51 Jisc: 584528 ORCID: /0000-0003-0769-2153/work/118800100 Scopus: 85137891420 WOS: 000872570000001 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25953 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.897298 |
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Copyright © 2022 Martin, Guazzo, Helble, Alongi, Durbach, Martin, Matsuyama and Henderson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/25953 2023-07-02T03:31:45+02:00 North Pacific minke whales call rapidly when calling conspecifics are nearby Martin, Cameron R. Guazzo, Regina A. Helble, Tyler A. Alongi, Gabriela C. Durbach, Ian N. Martin, Stephen W. Matsuyama, Brian M. Henderson, E. Elizabeth University of St Andrews. Arctic Research Centre University of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statistics 2022-09-06T09:30:15Z 12 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25953 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.897298 eng eng Frontiers in Marine Science Martin , C R , Guazzo , R A , Helble , T A , Alongi , G C , Durbach , I N , Martin , S W , Matsuyama , B M & Henderson , E E 2022 , ' North Pacific minke whales call rapidly when calling conspecifics are nearby ' , Frontiers in Marine Science , vol. 9 , 897298 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.897298 2296-7745 PURE: 281195447 PURE UUID: 70eaaf37-a86e-490c-a6c6-27392caaae51 Jisc: 584528 ORCID: /0000-0003-0769-2153/work/118800100 Scopus: 85137891420 WOS: 000872570000001 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25953 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.897298 Copyright © 2022 Martin, Guazzo, Helble, Alongi, Durbach, Martin, Matsuyama and Henderson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) Inter-call interval (ICI) Calling rate Cue rate Bioacoustics Passive acoustic monitoring Animal behavior Marine ecology GC Oceanography QL Zoology DAS SDG 14 - Life Below Water MCC GC QL Journal article 2022 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.897298 2023-06-13T18:29:31Z Funding: This research was supported by Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (Code N465JR, Award Number N0007020WR0EP8F) and tool development utilized for this analysis was supported by the U.S. Navy’s Living Marine Resources Program (Award Number N0002520WR0141R). North Pacific minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) boing calls are commonly detected in Hawaiian waters. When producing boing vocalizations, minke whales seem to be in one of two calling behavioral states. Most often minke whales produce boings with inter-call intervals of several minutes, but sometimes minke whales call rapidly with inter-call intervals of less than a minute. Since minke whales are difficult to detect visually, cue-rate-based density estimation using passive acoustic monitoring has been proposed. However, the variables that influence cue rate or calling rate are poorly understood in most whales, including minke whales. We collected passive acoustic recordings from 47 bottom-mounted hydrophones at the Pacific Missile Range Facility’s instrumented range off the coast of Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi to test the hypothesis that minke whales call more rapidly when closer in proximity to other calling conspecifics. A total of 599 days of data were recorded between August 2012 and July 2017 and were automatically post-processed to detect, classify, and localize calls. Localized calls were grouped into tracks and manually validated, resulting in 509 individual tracks composed of 36,033 calls within a 16 x 39 km focal study area. Tracked minke whales exhibited a strong bimodal call rate with means of one call every 6.85 min (σ= 2.54 min) and 0.63 min (σ= 0.36 min). We ran hidden Markov models to quantify the relationship between call rate and the distance to the nearest calling conspecific. Overall, the probability of the higher call rate occurring increased as the distance to the nearest conspecific decreased, and the probability of the lower call rate occurring increased as the distance to the nearest conspecific increased. We also examined individual ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Balaenoptera acutorostrata minke whale University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Pacific Frontiers in Marine Science 9 |