https://doi.org/10.82144/505c7146 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/d99dba03-986e-441e-8b13-5de275543a52 https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2190 https://obis.org/dataset/a980a1b5-c77e-43ee-8548-f9a5eb506e2a Regina Guazzo Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific Primary contact regina.guazzo@gmail.com OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Regina Guazzo Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific Primary contact regina.guazzo@gmail.com owner 2025-09-11 eng Original provider: Regina A. Guazzo, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific Dataset credits: Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific Abstract: Minke whale boing calls are commonly detected in Hawaiian waters. When vocalizing, minke whales seem to be in one of two calling behavioral states. Most often minke whales produce boings with inter-call intervals of several minutes, but sometimes minke whales call rapidly with inter-call intervals of less than a minute. Since minke whales are difficult to detect visually, cue rate based density estimation using passive acoustic monitoring has been proposed. However, the variables that influence cue rate or calling rate are poorly understood in most whales including minke whales. We collected passive acoustic recordings from 47 bottom-mounted hydrophones at the Pacific Missile Range Facility’s instrumented range off the coast of Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi to test the hypothesis that minke whales call more rapidly when closer in proximity to other calling conspecifics. A total of 599 days of data were recorded between August 2012 and July 2017 and were automatically post-processed to detect, classify, and localize calls. Localized calls were automatically tracked and manually validated, resulting in 509 individual tracks composed of 36,033 calls within a 16x39 km study area. Tracked minke whales exhibited a strong bimodal call rate with means of one call every 6.85 min (SD = 2.54 min) and 0.63 min (SD = 0.36 min). We ran hidden Markov models to quantify the relationship between call rate and the distance to the nearest calling conspecific. Overall, the probability of the higher call rate occurring increased as the distance to the nearest conspecific decreased, and the probability of the lower call rate occurring increased as the distance to the nearest conspecific increased. We also examined individual track data and found that minke whales may also exhibit other responses (i.e. increased speed, changes in heading, and cessation of calling) when calling conspecifics are nearby. These findings provide new information about minke whale calling behavior on what are likely their breeding grounds. Marine Biology Passive acoustic detection Marine Animal Survey Marine mammals Acoustic precense/absence Ocean-based Platforms N/A The monitoring effort of each of the hydrophones in the array is the same and the hydrophone locations are rounded and approximate. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2190 Oceans,Pacific,Hawaii,Kauai -160.280401 -159.585785 23.017985 22.009364 2012-11-27 2017-05-10 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). species Balaenoptera acutorostrata Common minke whale notPlanned Regina Guazzo Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific Primary contact regina.guazzo@gmail.com NA NA NA Regina Guazzo owner NA zd_2190 2025-09-11T15:59:26-04:00 dataset Guazzo, R. 2022. Minke whale localized acoustic detections off Kauai. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/505c7146. Martin, C. R., Guazzo, R. A., Helble, T. A., Alongi, G. C., Durbach, I. N., Martin, S. W., Matsuyama, B. M., & Henderson, E. E. 2022. Minke whales call rapidly when calling conspecifics are nearby. Frontiers in Marine Science OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2190 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2190/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2190/eml OBIS-SEAMAP zd_2190 zd_2190