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The vocalisation of a dwarf minke whale sounds so strange and resonant it has been likened to a Star Wars lightsaber.
Dwarf minke whales off the Great Barrier Reef were recorded making sounds resembling ‘the swoosh of a Star Wars lightsabre’.
Extraordinary footage has captured the distinctive call of the elusive Dwarf Minke Whale at the Great Barrier Reef. The ...
However, scientists have yet to directly observe a minke whale producing these sounds in real time. Minke whales, a kind of baleen whale, are difficult to study because they prefer icy waters ...
“For minke whales, I don’t think there are a lot of details on how they use sound day-to-day,” Parks said, adding that there are other baleen species “where we’re just matching species ...
For the first time, scientists have directly measured the hearing range of minke whales, discovering that the species can detect high-frequency sounds as high as 90 kilohertz (kHz), according to a ...
The Minke whale that washed ashore in Westhampton Beach is the eighth large whale the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society has responded to this year as part of a NOAA Fisheries Unusual Mortality ...
The cacophony in the oceans is preventing whales from making themselves heard. New research, published in Nature, reveals that the way baleen whale throats have evolved prevents them from singing ...
Eerie and fascinating, whale songs are one of the most mysterious sounds reverberating through the ocean. Now, researachers say they know how the leviathans vocalize.