Species detection

To date, PODs have been shown to detect the species listed below. Please click on the links below for information on each species.

Atlantic white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus acutus

Australian snubfin dolphin, Orcaella heinsohni

Burmeister's dolphin, Phocoena spinipinnis

Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris

Beluga, Delphinapterus leucas

Boto, Inia geoffrensis

Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus and Tursiops aduncus

Commerson's dolphin, Cephalorhynchus commersonii

Common dolphin, Delphinus delphis

Harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena

Heaviside's dolphin, Cephalorhynchus heavisidii

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, Sousa chinensis

Long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas

Maui dolphin, Cephalorhynchus hectori maui (subspecies of Hector's dolphin)

Orca, Orcinus orca

Peale's dolphin, Lagenorhynchus australis

Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus

Short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus

Susu, Platanista gangetica

Tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis

Vaquita, Phocoena sinus

In quiet locations, over 40% of clicks identified in porpoise monitoring occur as click trains. Similar rates can be found from dolphins in such quiet locations as the Amazon. More typically, in dolphin monitoring, less than 5% of the clicks are in trains. This is because their clicks are less distinctive, so more non-cetacean clicks are logged at the maximum bandwidth required to include the cetacean clicks and because more echoes and multi-path duplicates of clicks are received from these louder animals.

Sperm whales, Physeter catodon may be difficult to monitor, although monitoring has not yet been tried.