Today, April 25 2013 is “International Noise Awareness Day.” Founded in 1996 by the Center for Hearing and Communication it was designed to promote awareness of the dangers of long-term exposure to noise – in humans. 1996 was really just…
Tag: vocalizations
Whale Call Map
Dolphin Speak
A paper recently published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on dolphin communication got some public attention in Science last week because the studies inferred that dolphins could learn names of individuals in their social group and use these…
A little louder please, I can’t hear you.
Mark Spalding from The Ocean Foundation sent us an article in Science Daily this week which discusses the findings of Susan Parks and colleagues regarding how North American Right whales are increasing their vocalization levels to overcome the background noise…