... parts of the world.
"The five-year study has greatly contributed to our knowledge of sperm whales, especially those found in the Gulf of Mexico. It's also raised new questions we need to know more ...
... AP) -- Rescuers poured water on the parched skin of sperm whales beached on a remote sand bank off Australia' ... them alive until the next high tide, after a stranding that left at least 38 whales dead.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are investigating whether or not noise generated by the oil and gas industry might affect the day-to-day behaviour of sperm whales.
... for almost 20 years trying to tell marine mammal scientists and the entire world that pods of whales strand -- 30 days after experiencing a diving-related injury caused by potent pressure changes ...
... policy, announced today. It states that stranded whales
should be put down by a lethal injection ... so. The policy would apply to deep-sea
creatures such as beaked and sperm whales but not to dolphins ...
... whales typically dive to dark depths spanning 300 to 2,000 meters (984 ...
Thode said the video also may assist fishermen in reducing sperm whale encounters with their gear. Besides being economically ...
What do a West African drummer and a sperm whale have in common? According to some reports, they can both spot ... next week in San Antonio, suggest that whales make a specific effort to keep their calls ...
"Absolutely sensational" new pictures are rare proof that the
world's largest toothed whales feed on elusive giant squid. And if
researchers are right, the photos may also show a baby whale's
hunting ...
... scientists as Buccinum undatum.
However, over time it emerged that Linnaeus assigned four names to the same species of sperm whale, a mistake caught years ago but which still ...
The underwater world and the underworld have at least one thing in common — lots of aliases.
... as they respond to various sounds, specifically the echolocation clicks of its main predators: the sperm whale, beaked whale, and dolphin. In addition to the brain wave experiments, he also plans to ...
... , and so
less able to outswim their own predators, including sperm whales
that feed heavily on the creatures.Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas)
can grow up to 2m long and hunt in ...
... can correctly use its biosonar system and thus evaluate its survival chances on release.
ELUCIDATING THE SPERM WHALE SONAR AND ITS DETECTION POWERS
Cetacean hearing systems are characterized by a ...
... swimming Amazon River dolphin and pygmy sperm whale to the super-fast striped dolphin ... play a significant role in the evolution of dolphin and whale flipper shapes and their hydrodynamics, Howle and his ...
... without mineralized teeth (e.g., baleen whales, anteaters, pangolins) and of mammals with teeth that lack ... (e.g., sloths, aardvarks, and pygmy sperm whales). Further, the fossil record documents when ...
