Back in 2006 Aaron Thode presented some remarkable footage at an Acoustic Society meeting that he and Delphine Mathias caught of a Sperm whale deftly plucking a cod off a camera-rigged long-line. It turns out that this is becoming quite…
Month: April 2011
New lab evidence substantiates noise impacts on invertebrates
Bioacoustician Michele André et.al. from the Catalonian “Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics” has published a paper which examines the impacts of low frequency (50Hz–400Hz) noise on cephalopods – squid, octopus, and cuttlefish. Exposed to surprisingly low levels of sinusoid noise…
First bitter harvest form an ill-informed Supreme Court ruling
At the close of last week three dolphins were found dead, as a consequence of US Navy explosives exercises. The bitter irony here is that these exercises were allowed by a Supreme Court ruling back in October 2008. In the…