“But these super loud songs could expose them and their mates to killer whale attack,” Branch said in the release. “And this is where acoustic crypsis (a type of enigmatic behavior for ...

Some baleen whale species are capable of evading orcas — their only known predators — by using stealth-like communication, according to new research. Specifically, the marine mammals can sing at ...

Especially intriguing to Darren is that female orca go through something like the menopause - an extremely rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom, only documented in just five species of toothed whales ...