The race to respond to right whales, via buoys

On Jan. 20, an acoustic buoy detected an endangered North Atlantic right whale call near Savannah, prompting NOAA to issue a ...
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Experts put listening devices in the ocean and heard mysterious calls from whales rarely seen alive

Beaked whales spend most of their time swimming in dark depths, and as they become vulnerable to extinction, this study ...

US Navy heard a mysterious sound from the deep ocean and it may be from the world’s loneliest animal

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, ...
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Whales are capable of complex communication — could humans ever talk with them?

Learn more about how whales communicate and how researchers are working to find out if humans and whales could one day ...
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It Took A Musician's Ear To Decode The Complex Song In Whale Calls

Male humpback whales create "songs" together, scientists say. Katy Payne was the first to hear the shifts in pitch and pattern in the collective... It Took A Musician's Ear To Decode The Complex Song ...
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Humpback Whales May Be Trying To Communicate With Humans

Humpback whales are some of the most intelligent creatures humans have ever had the chance to observe. However, researchers have encountered a bit of a conundrum with these massive sea-bound creatures ...
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Counting whales by eavesdropping on their chatter, with help from machine learning

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists have combined passive acoustic monitoring, machine-learning tools and aerial surveys to estimate the population of North Atlantic right ...