A Curtin University-led study found pygmy blue whales off Western Australia generally fed by day, leaving more time for singing at night, so song patterns could reveal when the whales are feeding.
Scientists in Abu Dhabi will examine whether artificial intelligence can help decipher the sounds of whales and dolphins at a public presentation on Thursday, October 29, organized by the Yas SeaWorld Research & Rescue Center and Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi. The presentation,…
NOAA Fisheries scientist Jessica Crance deploys a sonobuoy to acoustically monitor for North Pacific right whale calls. Right whales don’t sing—or do they? Unlike some of their famously musical relatives, right whales are known to restrict their vocalizations to…
On the lush island of Dominica, researchers are using new sensors and network science approaches to reveal how the world’s largest predator converses LONDON – Arriving on the Caribbean island of Dominica for the first time “feels a little bit like…
Scientists are using underwater songs to uncover where elusive Omura's whales live, what they may eat, and how they survive year-round in tropical waters. Spending the whole year in warm seas sounds like a comfortable arrangement. For a whale, though,…
New research using 18 years of sound recordings provides insights into the habitat of the elusive Omura’s whale. Royal Society Open Science Very little is known about the Omura’s whale – a type of baleen whale, first recognised as a species in…
In a boost for the conservation of one of the world’s most elusive and least-understood whale species, researchers analysing more than 18 years of underwater acoustic recordings collected off northwest Australia have discovered that Omura’s whales are most likely to be…
But few Malaysians know about these sea animals, and even fewer are aware that there is a scientist who studies the vocal communications of these aquatic mammals. Meet Saliza Bono, the bioacoustics officer at MareCet, the country’s only NGO dedicated…
Seals and sea lions have been trained to take hearing tests to begin to understand how much human noise bothers them. Researchers from Curtin University and Taronga Conservation Society Australia have used the study to reveal what sounds these marine…
Scientists in Australia trained sea lions and seals to respond to a hearing test for research into how the marine mammals are affected by human-made noise. Keepers at Sydney's Taronga Zoo trained two sea lions and two fur seals to…
From humpbacks to blues—migrating giants that sing across oceans.
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