Abbie Caffyn

U.K Researchers, In A World First, Proved That European Hedgehogs Can Detect High-Frequency Sounds Up To At Least 85 KHz. This Is Thanks To Their Stiffened Middle-Ear Bones, Similar To Echolocating Bats. This May Explain Why Hedgehogs Don’t Hear Some Car Noises, Which Leads To Road Deaths. Future Ultrasound Repellers Could Help Save Them.

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In A First, Researchers In Norway Filmed The Full Process Of Wild Orca Birth. Drone Footage Showed Mostly Female & Juvenile Pod Members Lifting A Limp Newborn For ~15 Mins To Help It Breathe Until It Swam. The Calf Had Fetal Folds & A Floppy Fin. Led By Mother NKW-591, The Pod Showed Midwife-Like Care, Revealing Rare Natural Orca Behavior.

Scientists In Canada, Off BC, Recorded The First-Ever Cooperative Hunt Between Killer Whales & Pacific White-Sided Dolphins For Chinook Salmon. Dolphins Used Echolocation To Scout; While The Whales Tore The Large Prey. Whales Gain Efficient Hunting; While Dolphins Get Scraps & Potential Protection, Confirming A Mutually Beneficial Alliance.

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Researchers Have Documented, For The First Time, The Biggest Predation Event On Earth— Orcas killing The Largest Animal On Earth, The Blue Whale. The Killings Were Led By Female Orcas, Contrary To Opinions That The Strongest Male Orcas Led The Killings. The Orcas Would Push The Whale Under Water While Others Attacked Its Head And Tongue.

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Orcas Are Known To Be Highly Intelligent And Social Creatures. So It May Come As No Surprise That A Captive Killer Whale Could Learn To Speak (Probably With No Understanding) In Other Dialects, For Example, Say Human Words Like Hello And Bye. Elephants And Seals Have Also Been Known To Say Human Words Too.

An orca has been taught to…