Sound Gallery - Killer Whale

Killer whales at Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska

NPS Photo by Jim Pfeiffenberger

• Killer Whale

  
  

  Sound recording of killer whales, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

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  Audio Transcript

  The high-pitched whistles and buzzing sounds of a killer whale's vocalization.

Spectrogram of killer whales. 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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