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Squeak up! I can’t hear you: pilot whales are shouting to hear themselves over ship noise

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par Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University

In the Strait of Gibraltar – a famous marine road connecting the Mediterranean and the Atlantic – lives a critically endangered sub-population of a few hundred long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas).

Despite their name, these dark and blubbery marine mammals aren’t technically whales – they’re large oceanic dolphins which are believed to have a navigator…

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