A team of scientists used playbacks of recorded and artificial porpoise clicks to develop an adaptable method to assess the area in which acoustic monitoring devices can reliably detect these sounds ...

In a first study of its kind, Dr Hanna Nuuttila, currently at Swansea University's College of Science - together with scientists from the German Oceanographic Museum, the University of St Andrews and ...

Porpoises communicate with each other using sounds. Therefore, they are highly sensitive to noise, such as ship noise. A new study shows that porpoises flee from and stop feeding when disturbed by ...

A porpoise’s forehead acts like a ‘metamaterial’ to create the directional sound beam used by the marine mammals to detect and track prey, claim researchers in the US and China. The acoustics experts ...

Kylie is a solo dolphin who lives in the Firth of Clyde, the mouth of the River Clyde in Scotland, and spends her days swimming around navigational buoys in the Atlantic channel. It is also here that ...

Harbor porpoises are frequently exposed to sounds from shipping vessels that register at around 100 decibels, about as loud as a lawnmower, scientists report February 14 in Proceedings of the Royal ...

A solitary female dolphin off the coast of Scotland "identifies as a porpoise" and tries to speak to a group of harbor porpoises that also frequent the Firth of Clyde, according to scientists.

THE PORPOISE: By Mark Haddon. Doubleday. 320 pages. $27.95. Mark Haddon has written a terrifically exciting novel called “The Porpoise.” Could we just stop there? Almost anything else I say about this ...

An examination into the detection of harbour porpoises is helping to give new understanding of effective monitoring of species under threat from anthropogenic activities such as fisheries bycatch and ...

Porpoises communicate with each other using sounds. Therefore, they are highly sensitive to noise, such as ship noise. And the Danish belts and sounds are some of the most heavily trafficked waters in ...