New buoys listen for critically endangered right whale sounds off Massachusetts coast
Researchers are listening for right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new high-tech buoys.
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Buoys to collect near real-time data about endangered North Atlantic Right Whales off Mass. coast
A new monitoring program in the Bay State will collect near real-time information about the presence of endangered North ...
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Whales sing more when they have full stomachs, study finds. ‘Window into their lives’
“These vocalizations can be detected if the singing whale is anywhere within an area thousands of square kilometers around the hydrophone,” according to the release. The study kicked off in ...
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New buoys listen for critically endangered right whale sounds off Massachusetts coast
They are part of a larger East Coast network of buoys that the state says will “listen for, detect, classify, and report vocalizations of large whales in near real-time.” “Within a few hours ...