The odds of a two-year old killer whale calf surviving in the open ocean on its own and eventually reuniting with family ...
RELATED: Why are these killer whales increasingly showing up in the Salish Sea? This is the conclusion of a paper published in the journal Royal Society of Open Science, which states the orca ...
Humpback whales typically feed by filling their large, pleated oral pouch with ocean water, then expelling the water through ...
The new hydrophones can detect orca sounds within a two-kilometre range. They don’t yet detect the sounds of humpback whales but Mitchell said the technology will eventually be expanded for ...
A group of scientists had a “conversation” with a humpback whale in Alaska — and they hope principles learned from it will someday help communicate with aliens. The team was assembled by the ...
He was piloting a small skiff and trailing a squad of six killer whales. Ford ... dolphins, even humpback calves—but not fish. “These prey specializations aren’t just choices that orcas ...
He was piloting a small skiff and trailing a squad of six killer whales. Ford ... dolphins, even humpback calves—but not fish. “These prey specializations aren’t just choices that orcas ...
Scientists claim they have had the first one-on-one conversation with a whale. The team from the SETI Institute and the University of California 'spoke' with a 38-year-old humpback whale ...
Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. Humpback whales ...
Blue whales are baleen whales. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they almost exclusively eat krill, which they strain out of huge water gulps through baleen plates.