A study reveals that whales vocalise less during marine heatwaves to kill their prey, linking climate change to changes in ...

File photo of a blue whale off the coast of Bandon, Oregon. An analysis from the University of Washington finds that blue and ...

Blue whales — the planet’s largest animal — subsist on tiny crustaceans called krill. As populations of this food source ...

Whales sing more when they have a proximity ... “These vocalizations can be detected if the singing whale is anywhere within an area thousands of square kilometers around the hydrophone ...

We wanted to know if these changes in the ecosystem were reflected in the whales’ acoustic behaviour. To track the occurrence of singing, we examined audio recordings acquired through the ...

As populations of this food source recovered from the marine heat wave, detections of blue whale singing soared. When krill numbers fell again, so did the whales’ songs. Unlike blue whales ...