The melon in their head can also change shape while making sounds and their face muscles can move, creating ‘expressions’ that can appear amusingly human. The characterful face of a beluga whale.

Beluga whales (Delphinapterus ... Belugas can mimic sounds. They are one of the few whale species capable of mimicking human speech patterns and other environmental noises. They have echolocation ...

On global capitalism and shipping as its engine, deep sea mining, the climate crisis and ‘Deep Water’, his work looks at how ...

Belugas migrate there to give birth, nurse their young, and feed. Linguistic Communication – The story of Noc, a beluga whale, showcases their ability to imitate human sounds and communicate with ...

Baby Beluga whale. By Sheila Sund from Salem ... of Natural Resources has revealed that narwhals generate highly directed clicking sounds that function similarly to human language in conveying ...

The laboratory room sounds like a chorus of squeaky toys ... contexts — of the Hawaiian crow and St. Lawrence River beluga whales. After spending more than two decades extinct in the wild ...

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From whale watching on ... the coolest thing about the beluga is that they can change the shape of their bulbous foreheads. This squishy part of the head is called a melon, and the beluga can change ...

The paper comes just weeks after Google announced its AI model, DolphinGemma, which is set to revolutionize dolphin ...