Noise pollution spooks whales the way predators would, study finds

Mongabay
Jun 7, 2022, 10:41 am251 pts
Generally, the word pollution conjures images of billowing smokestacks, oily water and trash-filled highway medians. But for whales, dolphins and porpoises, a subtler and perhaps more sinister source of pollution also poisons their realm: human-made sound. A study published March 21 in the Proceedings of the…

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