of stress in whales. whales communicate on the same frequency as the noise created by ship engines, so whales effectively have to ‘shout’ to hear one another above the engine’s roar. we don’t know how much noise pollution a body of water can take before whales can’t communicate at all.
it’s like us having to holler over the roar of a transport truck, only constant for whales when these tankers make their slow pass.
with only 510 estimated alive today, the north atlantic right whale is the most endangered large whale on the planet. we are lucky to have it, along with several other species of large whales, visit the bay of 