Such threats include bycatch (accidental capture in fishing gear), chemical and noise pollution, ship strikes, habitat destruction, over-fishing of prey species, and climate change—which can impact ...

Orcas are too wide-ranging, too socially complex, and simply too large to cope with captivity in concrete tanks that are a tiny fraction the size of their natural home ranges. The compromised welfare ...

Cetaceans assist with ship navigation, and intelligent whales are part of Cetacean Ops. Cetacean Ops divisions were on famous Starfleet ships in the Star Trek universe. The concept of Cetacean Ops ...

Prior to the current research, the most recent cetacean survey—conducted in Kaimana in 2015—had recorded 64 pods of Australian humpback dolphins and 40 pods of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp ...

While this is an exciting development, they emphasize that we are still unable to communicate with cetacean mammals because, as yet, scientists have no idea what whale phonemes signify.