Toothed whales use sound to find their way around, detect objects, and catch fish. They can investigate their environment by making clicking sounds, and then decoding the "echoic return signal" ...
When researchers from the University of British Columbia set out to film the solitary hunting habits of Northern resident killer whales, they expected to see quiet and solitary predators at work.
Northern Resident killer whales along the Pacific coast are suppressing their own calls and trailing Pacific white-sided ...
Artificial intelligence is listening to orca calls in real time and helping to reduce their exposure to underwater noise. The effort is focused on an endangered orca subspecies in the Salish Sea, off ...
A two-kilometer fiber-optic cable now resting on the seafloor off the San Juan Islands could revolutionize how scientists track and protect endangered orcas, offering what researchers describe as ...
Rescue Crew and Stranded Dolphins: IFAW personnel respond to common dolphins in Wellfleet, Mass., a global hotspot for mass strandings of dolphins. Partnerships and collaborations between researchers ...