Click on the links below to listen to some of the acoustically amazing animals that are part of the underwater orchestra!!

Sperm Whale clicks
Sperm Whale coda
Beluga Whale clicks
Killer Whale calls

Links above courtesy of CIBRA

Harbour Seal roar
sound courtesy of Phil Rouget

Herring chirp
sound courtesy of Dr. Ben Wilson

Snapping shrimp

Links with good sounds and information on underwater acoustics:

• CIBRA: The Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali (Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research), at the University of Pavia, Italy. Their Laboratory of Marine Bioacoustics conducts research on the acoustic communication in animals.
  A special thank you to Dr. Gianni Pavan for his donation of the sounds above!
  
  
• NOAA's Whale Acoustic Project:a good introduction to the physics of underwater acoustic plus sound clips of many cetaceans, including blue, fin, minke and humpback whales
  
  
• Links to Humpback Songs:
  PBS: Humpback Whales
  DolphinEAR Sound Library


• Killer Whale Links:
  WhaleLink: details on killer whale dialects, sound bytes and sonograms
  OrcaFM: listen to British Columbia's killer whales live via satellite!!
  
  
• Dr. John Ford: a leading researcher in marine mammal acoustics, listen to sounds of killer whales, humpbacks, belugas and narwhals!
  
  
• Fish Acoustics: from the East Carolina University, listen to the sounds of the oyster toadfish, the spotted seatrout and the Red Drum!
  
  
• Library of Natural Sounds: has over 130 000 wildlife sound bytes to listen to!
  
  
• Cornell's Bioacoustics Research Program: A whale communication project looking at how to census whale populations using sound and addressing the issue of how human-created sound may effect marine mammals. Listen to bird and whale sounds!
  

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