Abstract
Much attention has been directed in the last eight years to the “songs” of the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, the only known cetacean to produce a complex sequence of sounds that is repeated substantially unchanged for hours at a time. Mammal sounds in similar (but simpler) “song” sequences were tape recorded by the Naval Ocean Systems Center in the ice‐covered Bering Strait on two occasions separated by several months. Although the sounds and sequences in the two recordings were clearly different, they are believed to be from the same species. Among possible sources of the sounds are the walrus, Odobenus rosmarus, and the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Analyses of the sound patterns and arguments on sound source identification will be presented.
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