Dear MARMAM community,
My co-author and I are pleased to announce that the following paper on acoustic repertoire of hooded seals is now available online: Frouin-Mouy, H., & Hammill, M. 2021. In-air and underwater sounds of hooded seals during the breeding season in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 150, 281-293 https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005478 Abstract: The hooded seal is a migratory species inhabiting the North Atlantic. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) conducted over spatial scales consistent with their known and potential habitat could provide insight into seasonal and spatial occurrence patterns of this species. Hooded seal airborne and underwater acoustic signals were recorded during the breeding season on the pack ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in March 2018 to better characterize their acoustic repertoire (notably underwater calls). In-air and underwater signals were classified into 12 and 22 types, respectively. Signals produced by males through the inflation and deflation of the proboscis and septum were the predominant sounds heard on the ice surface. Five of the 22 underwater signals were proboscis and septum noises. The remaining underwater signals (17) were categorized as voiced calls and further analyzed using two classification methods. Agreement with the initial subjective classification of voiced calls was high (77% for classification tree analysis and 88% for random forest analysis), showing that 12-13 call types separated well. The hooded seal's underwater acoustic repertoire is larger and more diverse than has been previously described. This study provides important baseline information necessary to monitor hooded seals using PAM. Please feel free to reach out (hfrouinm...@uvic.ca) with questions or to obtain a pdf copy of the article. Best, Heloise Héloïse Frouin-Mouy, PhD
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