Smithsonian Magazine on MSN10d
Only 50 Rice’s Whales Are Left. Can We Do Enough to Protect Them Before It’s Too Late?
Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...
Some species of baleen whales may avoid attracting killer whales by singing too low to be heard
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
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DOF Calls For Public Support In Whale And Marine Mammal Conservation Efforts
The Department of Fisheries (DOF) is calling on the public to play an active role in safeguarding whale and marine mammal ...
The Canadian Press on MSN6d
Some whales sing low enough to be ’acoustically invisible’ to killer whales: research
The whales that travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right, bowhead, grey and humpback, ...
How do whales avoid being detected by orcas? Their singing plays a role, study finds
Some baleen whale species are capable of evading orcas — their only known predators — by using stealth-like communication, according to new research. Specifically, the marine mammals can sing at ...
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Researchers Just Uncovered An Ancient 39-Foot Whale Skeleton In Thailand
Scientists in Thailand just discovered the stunningly well-preserved remains of a whale that lived between 3,000 and 5,000 ...
The Vancouver Sun8d
Some whales sing low enough to be ’acoustically invisible’ to killer whales: research
Bryde’s and minke whales. Trevor Branch, a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences at the University of Washington, reviewed more than 250 research papers last summer on whales and found that ...
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Whales have developed an impressive strategy to evade predators
Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.