#odontocetes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #odontocetes, aggregated by home.social.
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If you’ve ever witnessed a #whale’s powerful exhalation at the surface, you’ve likely experienced the notorious “whale breath”, that pungent cloud that can clear a whale-watching boat deck in seconds.
But while humans can certainly detect these oceanic odors, the question remains: Can whales themselves smell?
The answer is more complex than you might expect, with significant differences between toothed whales (#odontocetes) and baleen whales (#mysticetes).
#biology #ecology #evolution
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[Conant et al.] Silbido profundo: An open source package for the use of deep learning to detect #odontocete whistles https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/10.0016631?af=R&feed=most-recent 🐬 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Dolphin #Odontocetes
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[Houser et al.] Audiograms and click spectra of seven novel and seldom-tested #odontocetes https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.984333/full 🐬 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Dolphin #Dolphins
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Forehead structures of dolphins & sperm whales related to sound production.
#Dolphins #SpermWhales #bursa #skull #odontocetes #sound #anatomy #diagram #SoundBeyondMusic