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Young Orcas Are Still Sinking Boats and Now We Know Why | My Modern Met
By Elizabeth Beiser on June 5, 2024 Photo: Kamchatka/Depositphotos Teen orcas just want to have fun…by sinking yachts. Since 2017, there have been regular “attacks” on boats in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Orcas have been ramming themselves into boats to … Continue reading
Exploring the Mysterious Alphabet of Sperm Whales
MIT News: https://news.mit.edu/2024/csail-ceti-… Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146… Project CETI: https://www.projectceti.org/ Authors: Daniela Rus (MIT CSAIL), Antonio Torralba (MIT CSAIL), Jacob Andreas (MIT CSAIL), Pratyusha Sharma (MIT CSAIL), Shane Gero (Project CETI), Roger Payne (Project CETI), and David F. Gruber (Project CETI) Videographer: … Continue reading
Sperm Whales Vocalize an Alphabet Hauntingly Like Humans | My Modern Met
By Madeleine Muzdakis on June 2, 2024 Sperm whales swim near Mauritius. (Photo: Gabriel Barathieu via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED) Sperm whales are fascinating creatures. Endangered and still recovering from being hunted by whalers in the 19th century, … Continue reading
Pandas Aren’t Bears (They’re Closer To Walruses)
[…] ions and tigers and bears and walruses! Oh my! If the Carnivora is not the coolest and most diverse clade of mammals on the planet, it is certainly the clade most likely to eat you! And the thing is … Continue reading
Sperm whales have their own alphabet, scientists say | BBC News
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying a clan of sperm whales in the East Caribbean, found the mammals use clicks to tell other whales who they are. Sperm whales are known to be very sociable and communicate with … Continue reading
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