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.

Even though whales are massive creatures, they kind of act like playful lap dogs. This man has a close encounter with an especially curious and playful beluga whale who steals his camera. As if this ...

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 ...

Asian elephants have been documented using their trunks along with their voice box to produce human-like sounds. An elephant named Koshik, from Korea, can imitate several Korean words, including ...

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

Obviously, it’s not really possible to imagine what it’s like to see with sound or experience ... A specially trained beluga whale turned up with a camera harness in Sweden, which the Russians ...

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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Photo credit: JJBers The beluga whales at Mystic Aquarium press their foreheads against ... offer a ride—it delivers a rolling history lesson wrapped in the nostalgic sounds and smells of a bygone era ...

The study notes that dolphins have developed the ability to produce specific sounds, measured by complexity, frequency, amplitude, and duration, that mimic vocalizations resembling the human vowel ...

Air sacs–not vocal cords–below the blowhole are used to emit a wide variety of complex sounds, many of them above human hearing range. Kassewitz explained how the discovery came about.