Orcas acted as primary scouts by actively seeking out baleen whales and alerting the whalers by breaching and slapping their tails at the mouth of the river. This 90-year alliance proves that Orcas ...

Sperm whales produce powerful clicks to communicate. To our ears, they sound nothing more than a series of repetitive, mechanical taps. But we could be a step closer to understanding some of their ...

Community is important, and humans aren’t the only animals that need community; sea creatures do as well! One great example is the sperm whale. This species works together to help expectant mothers ...

Image Credit: Jodi Frediani. NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Research Permit 19703. December 12, 2023, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis ...

If you had to try to communicate with a sperm whale, you might try to (speaking slowly) talk really slowly. Of course, in the movie "Finding Nemo," Dory was trying to speak with a blue whale. Sperm ...

Ask anyone who’s had encounters with killer whales, and they will tell you just how smart they are. Orcas are incredibly intelligent creatures, capable of complex hunting strategies. They also engage ...

A new report from scientists at Project CETI demonstrates that the noises that sperm whales make to communicate with each other contain what humans would describe as vowels. If you had to try to ...