Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Listening to giants: The search for the elusive Antarctic blue whale<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-05-giants-elusive-antarctic-blue-whale.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-05-giants-e</span><span class="invisible">lusive-antarctic-blue-whale.html</span></a> paper: <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1324816/full" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">frontiersin.org/articles/10.33</span><span class="invisible">89/fmars.2024.1324816/full</span></a></p><p>"For almost two decades the team has been using free-floating <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sonobuoys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sonobuoys</span></a> as listening stations, to detect, track and record Antarctic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BlueWhale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlueWhale</span></a> and other <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/whale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whale</span></a> sounds. Spending more than eight months at sea, on seven voyages, the team has traveled more than 145,510 kilometers and monitored nearly 3,900 hours of sound from listening stations all around <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antarctica</span></a>."</p>