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Biological Sound Reference Libraries

One of the biggest challenges for sound utilization is trying to figure out what animal produced the sounds we record. This is particularly difficult to uncover in the aquatic realm, as sounds travel farther and faster underwater, and isolating the source with tank experiments can affect both behavioral production of the sound and acoustic properties of the sound as it propagates and reverberates. New sources of biological sound production are being discovered all the time in this rapidly developing field. The resources listed here are a starting place to discover for yourself who made that sound.

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Who made that sound?

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Number of resources found:

19

Australian Fish Chorus Catalogue

Australia

Fish

Curtin University Marine Mammals of Australia and Antarctica

Australia, Antarctica

Marine Mammals

DOSITS Audio Gallery

Various

Marine Mammals, Fish, Aquatic Invertebrates

FishSounds

Global

Fish

FonoZoo

Global

Amphibians

Macaulay Library

Various

Marine Mammals, Fish, Aquatic Invertebrates, Amphibians

Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin Animal Sound Archive

Europe

Marine Mammals, Fish, Amphibians

NOAA's Ocean Explorer

Various

Marine Mammals

National Park Service - Glacier Bay

Northeast Pacific

Marine Mammals

Ocean Biodiversity Listening Project

West Pacific

Marine Mammals, Fish, Aquatic Invertebrates

Ocean Conservation Research Sound Library

Various

Marine Mammals, Fish, Aquatic Invertebrates

Rodney Rountree's Aquatic Animal Sound Library

Various

Marine Mammals, Aquatic Invertebrates, Amphibians

This list has been published at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12096525
To cite this effort, please use: 
Jarriel, S., Looby, A., Larsen, K., Munger, J., & Parsons, M. (2024). Compilation of existing underwater PAM repositories, libraries, and applications for sound processing [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12096525
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