scientists temporarily captured baleen whales and tested their hearing, a controversial step that brings researchers closer to understanding how some of the largest and most intelligent animals on ...

Enormous, gentle, and playful, right whales have had the misfortune of being defined, even named, according to their value as hunted rather than living creatures. Whalers named the species thinking ..

and decoding the complex sounds of sperm whales, a highly intelligent, social species whose clicks have been found to contain the equivalent of vowels and a phonetic alphabet, resembling the ...

Killer whales are the largest dolphin species. They are highly social and spend most of their lives swimming in large ... they inhabit and the pod's approach to hunting. These highly intelligent ...