How do whales sing? Study finds unique voice boxes
In a paper published, scientists studied the voice boxes, or larynxes, from three dead, stranded baleen whales. Scientists say they are one step closer to figuring out how humpback and other types of whales sing: with specialized voice boxes that allow them to produce music loud enough to travel through the ocean. #whales #whale
People have known that whales make sounds since the 70s roughly and since then people have been
wondering how do they do this actually, how do they make sounds and we've now shown that
their larynx, their voice box, still works as a sound source but it works in very different ways
as we use it. We have to realize that the only way for these animals to communicate on the water
is by noise, by sound, and so the only way for them to find each other is by sound.
So if we add a bunch of noise to the oceans, basically on a global scale, this will really
reduce the areas over which these animals can communicate and make it harder for them to find each other.