Pilot whales can’t hear each other over ship noise in Strait of Gibraltar, study finds

Mongabay
Jun 12, 2026, 2:26 pm128 ptsTrending
The rumble of ship traffic is drowning out the calls of long-finned pilot whales and potentially other marine species in the Strait of Gibraltar, a narrow strip of water between Morocco and Spain that separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean Sea. Researchers who investigated this looked at near and…

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