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.
beats_bw190918_62R
A data frame with 59 rows and five variables:
time of heart beat, in POSIXct format
value from ECG recorder at peak voltage (see ecg_bw190918_62R)
period in seconds to next heart beat. NA if followed by a gap.
frequency of heart beat in Hz (inverse of period_s)
frequency of heart beat in beats-per-minute
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