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The vocalisation of a dwarf minke whale sounds so strange and resonant it has been likened to a Star Wars lightsaber.
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Why Do Whales Sing Underwater?
Let’s explore why whales sing and how these mesmerizing sounds play such an important role in the continued survival of these most ancient of creatures. To Communicate Whale songs are a primary ...
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Why Do Whales Breach?
Have you ever seen a picture or a video of a whale jumping out of the water? If you have, you’ve seen a whale breaching.
Scientists have long struggled to study how whales produce sound. A new paper in the journal Nature paints the most complete picture yet of how baleen whales produce their iconic, haunting calls.
Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations ...
Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and ...
Dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, sperm whales and other toothed whales produce an array of sounds - to find prey employing a sonar-like system called echolocation and to communicate with other ...
Project CETI is harnessing AI to understand the complex communication system of sperm whales. In a new study, the project's scientists used AI to decode thousands of sperm whale clicks. CETI ...
The researchers are trying to find a way to distinguish right whale sounds from other whales, specifically the whispering sounds that mother whales make to their young.
A humpback whale breaches west of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) ...
What can we learn from the whales? It’s something that researchers at the CETI project (not to be confused with the SETI Institute) are working on in order to help drive awareness around ...
If whales — and other nonhuman creatures by extension — might be capable of "hearing" divine revelation, then it follows that they, according to their own modality, might be capable of responding.