Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
... others in their pod, and in at least one case, a humpback continued singing very close to the speaker." Previous observations of ATOC transmissions at Pioneer Seamount, the California coastal site for the other ATOC speaker, also found no sign of disturbance among marine mammals, including elephant seal...Could Humpback Whales Be Singing Grammatically?
THE songs of the humpback whale are more complex than anyone realised. So cl...The same tools can be applied to whale calls. "The humpback whale songslowly changes over the season," explains John Buck of the University ofMassachusetts at D...Saving the whales -- how scientists measure success
...schemes for populations such as the North Atlantic humpback whale and the western Arctic bowhead whale, decision makers will be hard pressed to develop and use an objective set of criteria for all populations of large whales. Yet such objective criteria are exactly what are needed when agencies are faced with...Researchers trace toxins from algal blooms through the marine food web in Monterey Bay
...ir commercial value, are important in the diets of humpback whales, seabirds, seals, and sea lions. Yet little is known about how different species are affected by consuming prey tainted with domoic acid, Silver said. The most well-documented cases of domoic acid poisoning in wildlife have involved seabirds a...Scientists record extraordinary sounds made by minke whales
...es and tell other males to stay away. The songs of humpback whales are thought to serve this purpose, but much more research is needed to find out if the minke whales use their vocalizations in a similar way, he said....Using hard science to protect fragile seas
...nd kittiwakes soar overhead. ``Last week I saw two humpback whales swimming right out there,`` she says, pointing toward a white buoy a few hundred yards offshore. Despite this idyllic scene, Micheli knows that the only way to evaluate the true health of Monterey Bay is to understand the complex web of life b...Artificial intelligence, swimmer detectors, and blast resistant structures
...ities needed to assess effects of sound on passing humpback whales acoustic research pertaining to joint naval activities. The Czech Republic will investigate advanced software for monitoring and reasoning the interactions among distributed intelligent agents for possible exploitation of adversary networks...Science picks-leads, feeds and story seeds (January 2003)
...on saving endangered fish species, too, namely the humpback chub. The chub is being ganged up on by non-native fish that prey on and compete with them. To give the chub a break, USGS scientists will use high fluctuating flows to disrupt non-native fish spawning and use electro-fishing techniques to remove non...Whale study links genetics and reproductive success
A recent study focusing on the humpback whales of the Gulf of Maine revealed that differen...red more than two decades of field observations on humpback whales from the Whale Center of New England with genetic samples collected with biopsy darts, which ...Whale populations are too low to resume commercial hunting, geneticists find
...rs than anybody ever thought," Palumbi said. Take humpback whales, for example. According to the IWC, the cur...a lot more genetic variation. Our study shows that humpback whales today actually have about 10 times more genetic variation than would be expected from the wha...News tip: Duke marine biologist calls for whale-proof fishing gear
...n expedition several years ago that disentangled a humpback whale off Cape Lookout after attaching floats to slow the animal down. "But humpback whales are easier to disentangle than right whales," he says. "Right whales are stronger and less am...Mimicking humpback whale flippers may improve airplane wing design
DURHAM, N.C. -- Wind tunnel tests of scale-model humpback whale flippers have revealed that the scalloped, b...ted two approximately 22-inch-tall scale models of humpback pectoral flippers -- one with the characteristic bumps, called tubercles, and one without. The model...