Dear Colleagues, On behalf of my co-authors, I am very excited to share our new publication in JASA:
*Nicoline Abildtrup Nielsen, Stephen M. Dawson, Sara Torres Ortiz, Magnus Wahlberg, and Morgan J. Martin (2024). Hector’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus hectori) produce both narrowband high-frequency and broadband acoustic signals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(2), 1437–1450. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0024820 <https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0024820>* The paper is available here: https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-abstract/155/2/1437/3265783/Hector-s-dolphins-Cephalorhynchus-hectori-produce?redirectedFrom=fulltext Abstract: Odontocetes produce clicks for echolocation and communication. Most odontocetes are thought to produce either broadband (BB) or narrowband high-frequency (NBHF) clicks. Here, we show that the click repertoire of Hector's dolphin (*Cephalorhynchus hectori*) comprises highly stereotypical NBHF clicks and far more variable broadband clicks, with some that are intermediate between these two categories. Both NBHF and broadband clicks were made in trains, buzzes, and burst-pulses. Most clicks within click trains were typical NBHF clicks, which had a median centroid frequency of 130.3 kHz (median –10 dB bandwidth = 29.8 kHz). Some, however, while having only marginally lower centroid frequency (median = 123.8 kHz), had significant energy below 100 kHz and approximately double the bandwidth (median –10 dB bandwidth = 69.8 kHz); we refer to these as broadband. Broadband clicks in buzzes and burst-pulses had lower median centroid frequencies (120.7 and 121.8 kHz, respectively) compared to NBHF buzzes and burst-pulses (129.5 and 130.3 kHz, respectively). Source levels of NBHF clicks, estimated by using a drone to measure ranges from a single hydrophone and by computing time-of-arrival differences at a vertical hydrophone array, ranged from 116 to 171 dB re 1 μPa at 1 m, whereas source levels of broadband clicks, obtained from array data only, ranged from 138 to 184 dB re 1 μPa at 1 m. Our findings challenge the grouping of toothed whales as either NBHF or broadband species. Please feel free to email me for a PDF copy at mjmar...@sandiego.edu or morgan.mar...@boem.gov Cheers, Morgan J. Martin, PhD *Bioacoustician* *Center for Marine Acoustics* *Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (USA)*
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