Discover six creatures with truly extraordinary ears. These specialized organs allow them to navigate, hunt, and communicate ...

But this whale is different. It is a male and vocalizes during mating season in a way that only male whales do. Its species, however, is uncertain. It may be a fin whale, or perhaps a blue whale ...

Blue whale spouting off the coast of Kaikoura ... that because these different whale species produce sounds in the hearing range of the other species, that these whales may even be subliminally ...

falling partially below the range of human hearing. What makes these calls remarkable beyond their sheer power is their range. Under ideal ocean conditions, blue whale vocalizations can potentially ...

When they got within range they saw that is was a blue whale. She said they were 100% certain they were observing a blue whale because of its massive size, small dorsal fin three-quarters of the ...

A resident population of blue whales has for many years lived in the coastal waters of Sri Lanka, but in recent years sightings of the animals have declined rapidly. With multiple pressures on ...

Scientists think they use these vocalizations to communicate and—along with their excellent hearing—perhaps to sonar-navigate ... In the North Atlantic Ocean, the Blue Whales range extends from the ...

Blue whales are not just the largest animals alive today ... as scientists have known that smaller whales produce higher-frequency songs above an orca's hearing range. Pitman added that the loud, ...

but as soon as you get beyond the range of that it’s like they’re completely acoustically invisible. Like ghosts in the water.” Branch said most killer whales have poor hearing below 1500 ...

Others, like blue and fin whales, opt for speed ... The answer lies in frequency. Killer whales have a hearing range that starts at 100 hertz, meaning they cannot detect sounds below this threshold.

Cook Inlet beluga whales (CIB ... classes in both Chinitna Bay (red), and Tuxedni Bay (blue), Cook Inlet, Alaska. Horizontal bars give median SPL, crosses give mean SPL, boxes show the interquartile ...