publication – Nowacek Lab

Fight or flight? Pilot whales and Risso’s dolphins response to killer whale calls

June 15, 2018publication

What would you do if you heard the call of a hungry killer whale? Would you stay to fight or would you swim as fast as you could in the other direction? Not sure? Find out how short-finned pilot whales and Risso’s responded in our newest paper Selective reactions to

‘Bio-duck’ sound mystery solved!

April 24, 2014new, publication

For a half century a sound heard in the Southern Ocean and beyond has baffled acousticians. The noise – nicknamed “the bio-duck” – appears in the winter and spring. The repetitive, low frequency noise has been recorded many times in the waters around the Antarctic and western Australia. Our paper has