Whales Are Sensitive to Sound

When navy ships in the bahamas ran exercises using sonar that sound navigation and ranging, which amits bursts of underwater sound, these beaked whales had trouble. Over a period of a few hours, whales would strand by ones and twos over tens of kilometers of beach. Tyak and his colleagues wanted to learn just how sensitive the whales were to these sounds. They developed tags to track the whale's behavior and then dropped speakers in the water to play their own sonor noise first at very low levels....