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Curious Narwhals Keep Bumping Into Underwater Listening Devices — Here's Why

Learn why curious narwhals are acting like the cats of the sea, bumping and scratching against underwater listening devices.
NPR

Arctic Sounds

Christopher Clark is the director of the bioacoustics research program at Cornell University. He recorded the sounds of bowhead whales during their springtime migration along the coast of Alaska.

Narwhals hit moorings—passive monitoring may not be as non-invasive as previously assumed

Underwater passive acoustic recording is vital for researchers to monitor and study marine animals in their natural ...
EurekAlert!

Narwhals hit moorings—questioning safety assumptions of oceanographic monitoring in the Arctic

Researchers have recorded hundreds of incidents of narwhal interaction with underwater recording devices, suggesting passive ...
Yahoo

Scientists issue warning after examining arctic animal droppings: 'The polar bears we know now will be very different'

The Polar Bear Capital of the World sounds like a prime spot to observe the animals, and researchers who did just that came away with a stark warning. A team from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova ...
Mongabay

A warming Arctic is changing animal migrations, decades of tracking shows

The newly launched Arctic Animal Movement Archive (AAMA) includes 28 years of terrestrial and marine animal tracking studies on more than 96 species across the Arctic, Arctic marine, and subarctic ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Beasts of the Northern Wild

Scientists brave the deep snows and frigid cold of arctic Alaska to study the furtive and ferocious wolverine Photographs by Peter Mather; Text by Arik Gabbai A female wolverine roams the Arctic ...