Monitoring a female
narwhal showed that her heart rate dropped precipitously low at times as she performed a series of dives after escaping a net (top graph).
Not exact matches
The recordings
show that
narwhal clicks are extremely intense and directional — meaning they can widen and narrow the beam of sound to find prey over long and short distances.
Now that human interlopers are growing in number — a recent survey
showed that ship traffic in a key summering area for
narwhals near Canada jumped almost 300 % from 2015 to 2016 — researchers aren't sure how
narwhals will react.
Currently
showing at
Narwhal Contemporary in Toronto is a three person
show entitled View Point Geon featuring the work of Matthew Feyld, Alvaro Ilizarbe, Paul Wackers.
Movement analysis of one satellite - tracked killer whale travelling as part of a group of 20 + killer whales
showed that the whale remained in Prince Regent Inlet and in the northern part of the Gulf of Boothia from late August until early October, when locations overlapped aggregations of marine mammal prey species, including seals,
narwhal, and bowhead whales (Matthews et al. 2011).