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Northwest research reveals some whales avoid detection from predators by keeping their songs reeaaal low
Baleen whales are among the largest creatures in the ocean, but that doesn’t mean they’re safe from other animals. A pod of ...
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4,000 tons (or 20 million Big Macs): What whales bring to the tropics every year in nutrients
A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.
First documented sighting of a group of bowhead whales in Canada's Churchill River Estuary
In the summer of 2020, researchers from the University of Manitoba set up a time-lapse camera overlooking the Churchill River ...
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Northwest research reveals some whales avoid detection from predators by keeping their songs reeaaal low
An analysis from the University of Washington finds that blue and some other large baleen whales sing very low pitch songs to avoid detection by orca predators. Credit Courtesy of Leigh Torres ...