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BioAcoustica

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BioAcoustica is a free, open repository of wildlife sound recordings from the Natural History Museum, London.

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Literature

Shabangu, Fannie W.; Hofmeyr, G. J. Greg; Probert, Rachel; Connan, Maëlle; Buhrmann, Corrine A.; Gridley, Tess (2022). In-air acoustic repertoire and associated behaviour of wild juvenile crabeater seals during rehabilitation. Bioacoustics: 1-23.

Fournet, Michelle E. H.; Silvestri, Margherita; Clark, Christopher W.; Klinck, Holger; Rice, Aaron N. (2021). Limited vocal compensation for elevated ambient noise in bearded seals: implications for an industrializing Arctic Ocean.

Matthews, Leanna P.; Fournet, Michelle E. H.; Gabriele, Christine; Klinck, Holger; Parks, Susan E. (2020). Acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast Alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise.

Nowak, Lukasz J. (2020). Observations on mechanisms and phenomena underlying underwater and surface vocalisations of grey seals.

Reichmuth, Colleen; Sills, Jillian M.; Mulsow, Jason; Ghoul, Asila (2019). Long-term evidence of noise-induced permanent threshold shift in a harbor seal ( Phoca vitulina ).

Southall, Brandon L.; Casey, Caroline; Holt, Marla M.; Insley, Stephen J.; Reichmuth, Colleen (2019). High-amplitude vocalizations of male northern elephant seals and associated ambient noise on a breeding rookery.

Chou, Emily; Antunes, Ricardo; Sardelis, Stephanie; Stafford, Kathleen M.; West, Leigh; Spagnoli, Christopher; Southall, Brandon L.; Robards, Martin; Rosenbaum, Howard C. (2019). Seasonal variation in Arctic marine mammal acoustic detection in the northern Bering Sea. Marine Mammal Science.

Sills, Jillian M.; Parnell, Kirby; Reichmuth, Colleen (2018). The production and reception of underwater sound in Hawaiian monk seals ( Neomonachus schauinslandi ). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(3): 1741 - 1741.

Bartholomew, George A.; Collias, Nicholas E. (1962). The role of vocalization in the social behaviour of the northern elephant seal. Animal Behaviour, 10(1-2): 7 - 14.

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