page_title: List of whale vocalizations
hierarchical_section_title: List of whale vocalizations
caption_attribution_description: English: Spectrogram of Humpback Whale Song.
context_page_description: Whale vocalizations are the sounds made by whales to communicate. The word "song" is used in particular to describe the pattern of regular and predictable sounds made by some species of whales in a way that is reminiscent of human singing.
  Humans produce sound by expelling air through the larynx. The vocal cords within the larynx open and close as necessary to separate the stream of air into discrete pockets of air. These pockets are shaped by the throat, tongue, and lips into the desired sound.
  Cetacean sound production differs markedly from this mechanism. The precise mechanism differs in the two major suborders of cetaceans: the Odontoceti and the Mysticeti.
context_section_description: Whale vocalizations are the sounds made by whales to communicate. The word "song" is used in particular to describe the pattern of regular and predictable sounds made by some species of whales (notably the humpback) in a way that is reminiscent of human singing.
  Humans produce sound by expelling air through the larynx. The vocal cords within the larynx open and close as necessary to separate the stream of air into discrete pockets of air. These pockets are shaped by the throat, tongue, and lips into the desired sound.
  Cetacean sound production differs markedly from this mechanism. The precise mechanism differs in the two major suborders of cetaceans: the Odontoceti (toothed whales—including dolphins) and the Mysticeti (baleen whales—including the largest whales, such as the blue whale).
caption: Spectrogram of humpback whale vocalizations.  Detail is shown for the first 24 seconds of the 37-second recording of humpback whale song.  The ethereal whale songs and echolocation clicks are visible as horizontal striations and vertical sweeps respectively.  Spectrogram generated with Fatpigdog's PC based Real Time FFT Spectrum Analyzer.
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