Significant Sights: Art, music and science combine at a new whale exhibition at Winchester Cathedral
RYAN REISINGER and DREW CRAWFORD, in an article first published on The Conversation, take a look at an immersive art installation in Winchester Cathedral…
Scientists document remarkable sperm whale ‘phonetic alphabet’
Reuters The various species of whales inhabiting Earth’s oceans employ different types of vocalisations to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of clicking noises – called codas – sounding a bit like Morse code. A new analysis of years of vocalisations by sperm whales in the eastern Caribbean has […]
Brazilian citizen scientists see humpbacks return decades after mass killings
Ilha Bela, Brazil Reuters Julio Cardoso leans over the side of a boat to photograph a humpback whale as it slaps its giant tail into the water off Brazil’s south-eastern coast. Like other citizen scientists, as they are known, Cardoso uses the photographs to collect information on the numbers of the marine mammals, helping researchers […]
Around 270 whales stranded on sandbar off Australia’s Tasmania
Sydney, Australia Reuters Marine biologists were planning the rescue of around 270 whales stranded on a sandbar off the remote west coast of the Australian island of Tasmania on Monday. Government scientists said it appeared that at least 25 of the animals, believed to be pilot whales, had already died. Pilot whales are a species […]