These unearthly whale songs helped save humpbacks from extinction

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National ...
Alaska Public Media

Do you ever hear whale sounds? This biologist wants you to tell him about them

Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...
Reuters

For toothed whales, sound production is all in the nose

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - 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 ...
PBS

Pack-Ice Killer Whale Sounds — on Film

This is the first time pack- ice killer whales have ever been, ever been recorded. - Lee continues to listen to the group for several hours as they look for a suitable meal. - Typically, kilowatts are ...
WUNC

Study provides most detailed analysis yet of how baleen whales produce sound

KELLY: It's the song of a humpback whale, a type of baleen whale. COEN ELEMANS: All the baleen whales make extremely low frequency sounds, and it sounds like a bit like humming, like, (imitating whale ...
The New Yorker

Can We Decipher a Whale’s First Sounds?

The scientist David Gruber explains the mission of Project CETI, and what his team has learned about how whales communicate. and the president and founder of Project CETI Project CETI is the Cetacean ...
The Verge

Whale Safe project trials mic’d buoys with AI scanning to help prevent ship strikes

The algorithm has been trained to pick out whales’ Californian dialects among all the other sounds in the ocean. The algorithm has been trained to pick out whales’ Californian dialects among all the ...