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Minke whales make Star Wars noises

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Dwarf minke whales are not the strong, silent type after all, say two California researchers.

An acoustics researcher and dwarf minke whale study each other. Qamar Schuyler

Other whale scientists hadn’t noticed much vocalization from minkes. Nevertheless, Jason Gedamke and Daniel Costa of the University of California, Santa Cruz went to Australia to record the local dwarf minkes, one of the seven variants of the species.