Each group of blue whales in a specific region has their own unique style of vocalisation. A new song has been heard in the “northernmost reaches of the Arabian Sea, as far south as the Chagos Islands and in the Mozambique Channel west of Madagascar.” …
New research from Curtin University, Perth, Australia tells us that Southern Australian long-finned pilot whales employ copycat techniques to mimic the calls of killer whales in order to improve their chance of survival because killer whales prey on them. Also, in mimicking their sounds it …
At last, after years and years of campaigning, it appears to me that the public are against whaling. The report by the National Geographic website clearly indicates to me that whaling is gradually fading away which is amazing news for animal advocates. I can hardly …
Sowerby’s beaked whales have been found stranded and dead on the Lothian coast and northern bottlenose whales have suffered the same fate, one at Stornoway in the Western Isles and two in the Clyde sea lochs . Marine experts believe that they had died from …
Scientists have discovered that male blue whales (it is only the males who produce whale song – src: The Times) have conversations with other whales which are 600 miles away. They also discovered that before they migrate south to warmer waters they appear to be …
In the Mediterranean Sea there are an estimated 3,000 fin whales and 2,000 sperm whales. Tethys is a whale monitoring charity. A spokeswoman for the charity, Maddalena Jahoda, said that they have a list of 143 whales spotted in the Mediterranean with scars and injuries …
NEWS-VIEWS: It seems to me, and to others, that Beluga whales can smile. We don’t know for sure whether they are experiencing happiness at the time. One day we will. And we will understand with certainty that Beluga whales experience a range of emotions like …
