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beats (version 0.1.1)

beats_bw190918_62R: Heart rate of a blue whale

Description

A dataset containing the heart rate record of a blue whale, collected 2019-09-18 off the coast of Big Sur, CA under NMFS permit no. 16111.

Usage

beats_bw190918_62R

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 59 rows and five variables:

timestamp

time of heart beat, in POSIXct format

ecg

value from ECG recorder at peak voltage (see ecg_bw190918_62R)

period_s

period in seconds to next heart beat. NA if followed by a gap.

freq_hz

frequency of heart beat in Hz (inverse of period_s)

freq_bpm

frequency of heart beat in beats-per-minute

References

Goldbogen, J. A., Cade, D. E., Calambokidis, J., Czapanskiy, M. F., Fahlbusch, J., Friedlaender, A. S., <U+2026> Ponganis, P. J. (2019). Extreme bradycardia and tachycardia in the world<U+2019>s largest animal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(50), 25329<U+2013>25332. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1914273116