Zager A, Ahlberg S, Boyan O, Brierley J, Eddington V, Moll RJ, Kloepper LN. Characteristics of wild moose (Alces alces) vocalizations.
JASA EXPRESS LETTERS 2024;
4:041201. [PMID:
38563690 DOI:
10.1121/10.0025465]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
Abstract
Moose are a popular species with recreationists but understudied acoustically. We used publicly available videos to characterize and quantify the vocalizations of moose in New Hampshire separated by age/sex class. We found significant differences in peak frequency, center frequency, bandwidth, and duration across the groups. Our results provide quantification of wild moose vocalizations across age/sex classes, which is a key step for passive acoustic detection of this species and highlights public videos as a potential resource for bioacoustics research of hard-to-capture and understudied species.
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