Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own ...
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Deciphered whale calls reveal troubling human impacts on belugas

The study documented more than 1,700 beluga vocalizations.
AOL

Bowhead whales may hold the key to humans living up to 200 years

The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to be conservative. Scientific measurements using multiple methods have ...
WFAE

Sperm whales make sounds like human vowels, scientists report

If you had to try to communicate with a sperm whale, you might try to (speaking slowly) talk really slowly. Of course, in the movie "Finding Nemo," Dory was trying to speak with a blue whale. Sperm ...
EcoPortal.net

Researchers have tracked 13 whales fleeing across the Pacific from a strange sound humans cannot hear, as if an invisible predator were chasing them

Researchers were tracking 13 whales in the Pacific Ocean and noticed they were fleeing as if an invisible predator was ...
Earth.com

Beluga whales depend on sound to survive in murky waters

Cook Inlet beluga whales, an endangered Alaskan population of about 300, use distinct call types for different activities.
Raleigh News & Observer

As whale shark tourism booms, sharks suffer human-inflicted scars, study finds

The majority of whale sharks in a marine tourism hotspot off Indonesia have human-caused scars, according to a new study. Photo from NOAA, UnSplash The majority of whale sharks in a global tourism ...