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Is there any library that gathers marine species vocalizations?

There are some resources available, but often hampered by the sheer size of these acoustic datasets which makes it difficult to keep them online. http://www.mobysound.org/ has some examples. Also ...
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Is this sound made by 'Flipper' dolphin tv series real?

The Washington Post reports that according to Jennifer Durkin from the Baltimore's National Aquarium: The friendly voice of the dolphin in "Flipper" was dubbed -- it was, in fact, a ...
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Is there any library that gathers marine species vocalizations?

For fish sounds, there is also a relatively new and growing site, https://fishsounds.net, which hosts some downloadable recordings along with spectrograms, and citations for where they were described. ...
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Is there any library that gathers marine species vocalizations?

Nothing as comprehensive as xenocanto for the marine realm. At Fishbase https://www.fishbase.se/search.php, you can filter for sound files ("Information by Topic"), and there's a pretty ...
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Is there any library that gathers marine species vocalizations?

Dosits' library might also be of help. Here's the link to their audio gallery https://dosits.org/galleries/audio-gallery/ All the best of luck, sounds like a great project!
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Is there any library that gathers marine species vocalizations?

Cornell University's Macaulay Library has a very comprehensive and curated collection of avain and marine mammal sounds. They are also rated by quality if you want to test your neural network. However,...
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crackling/clicking sound from agricultural field

Cool that you heard this! I have heard similar cracking in corn fields in Indiana. I think what these crackles are are sounds produced by tiny fractures as the plant grows. Here is an article about ...
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What animals can be individually identified through their vocalisations? And to what extent?

What animals? I'll start with a broad unsupported hunch: probably almost any animal? The details and success are however likely to be a matter of which features (not easy to know beforehand in an ...
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Is there any library that gathers marine species vocalizations?

This site has a compilation of publicly available bioacoustic datasets & repo's (not necessarily specific to marine, but has some marine datasets included). https://bioacousticsdatasets.weebly.com/...
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Mystery marine animal vocalization in spring in the Bering Strait

Sounds like it could be a fish. I'd encourage you to check out the FishSounds.Net library, which is a freely available archive of soundclips and spectrograms of many species of fish. You can even ...
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What animals can be individually identified through their vocalisations? And to what extent?

I see two aspects animals emit signature call (as do bottlenose dolphins) then you can easily identify them by the call. This may also be the case for the wolf playback experiment in the OP. animals ...
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What animals can be individually identified through their vocalisations? And to what extent?

Individually specific signatures were described by many researchers in mammals, birds, amphibians, fish... Me and my colleagues, we provided an overview vocal individual identity signatures found ...
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High Frequency broadband sound at night in a recording - can I rule out biophonic sources?

The tonal sound below 1 kHz that varies in intensity could easily be traffic noise from nearby roads. (varying intensity an irregular occurrence), The broadband noise from 9 to 18 kHz on the contrary ...
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What animals can be individually identified through their vocalisations? And to what extent?

Sometimes individual signals are hidden in plain sight. Check out this take on the individual differences between male capercaillie low-frequency calls Hart et al. 2020. Low frequencies better ...
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Loose ID on soundscape recordings from Borneo

I know nothing about Borneo, but not going to let that stop me... You have sporadic triplets/quads, with a clear peak around 17 kHz, and varying amplitude - I would say bat calls for these. I would ...
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Anyone have experience using frequency trigger in AudioMoth?

Megan, Hi. The trigger option within Audiomoth firmware is quite new, so there are probably few people able to comment well on this? However... the use of amplitude-based triggers within the audible ...
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Unknown upswept pulsed sound recorded offshore Peru

Were you able to get a bearing on them? As in did the sounds appear on all hydrophone channels. Did the time difference make sense, even if on axis? It reminds me of the array sliding through ...
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