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Biological Sound Reference Libraries

One of the biggest challenges for sound utilization is trying to figure out what animal produced the sounds we record. This is particularly difficult to uncover in the aquatic realm, as sounds travel farther and faster underwater, and isolating the source with tank experiments can affect both behavioral production of the sound and acoustic properties of the sound as it propagates and reverberates. New sources of biological sound production are being discovered all the time in this rapidly developing field. The resources listed here are a starting place to discover for yourself who made that sound.

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Who made that sound?

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Number of resources found:

19

Rodney Rountree’s Fish Listener Website

Various

Fish

San Francisco Maritime National Park Historic Naval Sound

Marine Mammals, Fish

Sonothèque

Various

Marine Mammals, Amphibians

The SOUND Table on FishBase

Global

Fish

UCSD Voices in the Sea

Global

Marine Mammals

URI Fish Sounds

Western North Atlantic

Fish

WHOI Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database

Global

Marine Mammals

This list has been published at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12096525
To cite this effort, please use: 
Jarriel, S., Looby, A., Larsen, K., Munger, J., & Parsons, M. (2024). Compilation of existing underwater PAM repositories, libraries, and applications for sound processing [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12096525
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