A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark has conducted the first hearing test of a live baleen whale. For their study published in the journal Science, the group corralled a pair of wild minke whales and recorded their brain waves.
A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark has conducted the first hearing test of a live baleen whale. For their study published in the journal Science, the group corralled a pair of wild minke whales and recorded their brain waves.
Concerned about how human-produced ocean noises may impact the creatures that live in the sea, marine scientists want to learn more about the animals’ hearing capabilities. In this new study, the research team devised a means for testing the hearing of two wild baleen whales by recording their brain waves as they listened to recorded sounds.
