Sound Gallery - Humpback Whale

Humpback whales "bubble-net" feeding at Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska.

NPS Photo by Jim Pfeiffenberger

• Humpback Whale

  
  

  Sound recording of a humpback whale, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

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  Audio Transcript

  The rhythmic thwooping sound of a humpback whale call.

Spectrogram of a humpback whale. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right.

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