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W.C. Cummings & P.O. Thompson (1971). Underwater sounds from the blue whale Balaenoptera musculus. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America50 (4): 1193–1198. ISSN: 0001-4966. DOI: 10.1121/1.1912752.