{"id":8420,"date":"2012-07-20T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T00:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:21:05","slug":"whales-may-learn-to-cope-with-undersea-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/20\/whales-may-learn-to-cope-with-undersea-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"Whales may learn to cope with undersea noise"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Tests conducted with Kina, a false killer whale at the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology, indicate whales may be able to protect their ears from loud noise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whales may be able to protect their ears by lowering their hearing sensitivity when warned of an imminent loud sound, according to research by Paul Nachtigall<\/strong>, director of the Marine Mammal Research Program at the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Published earlier this year in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America<\/em>, Nachtigall’s research with Alexander Ya Supin of the Russian Academy of Sciences is gaining international attention following an article published on July 16 in The New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s equivalent to plugging your ears when a jet flies over,” Nachtigall told The New York Times<\/em>. “It’s like a volume control.”<\/p>\n

Though the team has only tested the warning signals with one false killer whale at the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/a> School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> facilities on Coconut Island, the findings are promising and could be used in efforts to help prevent hearing loss in marine mammals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The research findings by UH<\/abbr> Mānoa scientist Paul Nachtigall and a colleague are featured in The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,24],"tags":[92,9],"class_list":["post-8420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-uh-in-the-news","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t