Check out what a humpback whale hears as a ship steams around Vancouver Island:

In partnership with acousticians and engineers at Cornell University’s Bioacoustics Research Program, we’ve deployed a number of hydrophones to measure underwater shipping noise in BC. Cornell’s Dimitri Ponirakis produced this amazing animation based on our data to illustrate what a humpback whale hears as a ship steams around Vancouver Island.

Humpback whales rely on sound: they make coordinated feeding calls when bubble-net feeding, and their songs on the mating and calving grounds are among the most complex in the animal kingdom.

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