Crying to be heard

• Autores: Isabelle Groc
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3072, 2016, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In her office at the Vancouver Aquarium, Valeria Vergara is immersed in a world of sound-complex chirps, whistles, clicks, squeaks, grunts, screeches and foghorns. But Vergara isn't listening to the songs of tropical birds. Instead, the calls come from beluga whales, nicknamed the canaries of the sea for their singing. These Arctic inhabitants live in darkness for half the year so rely on sound to communicate, navigate, socialize and hunt. Here, Groc finds that in an increasingly noisy ocean the complex communication of beluga whales could be their downfall