The study was led by Professor Coen Elemans, voice scientist at the Department of Biology ... "Thus vocal fry allows whales access to the richest food niches on earth; the deep ocean," says ...

“Thus vocal fry allows whales access to the richest food niches on earth; the deep ocean.” Infographic explaining how toothed whales produce sound. CREDIT: Mikkel Larris, University of ...

The small camera didn't need to go deep; it just had to ... team determined that it's the vocal fry register that's responsible for echolocation in toothed whales. "The strength of this work ...

So does Scarlett Johansson and Katy Perry. And it turns out many whales also use “vocal fry,” the deep, gravelly vocal register these celebrities and a growing number of young American women ...

Scientists have confirmed that toothed whales have a vocal register and can produce a variety of sounds –- something previously confirmed only in humans and crows. Vocal fry is that low ...

Toothed whales such as orcas and dolphins use air-powered nose blasts to help them hunt prey hundreds of metres deep. The nasal-powered ... the vocal fry register (a low, creaky voice), the ...

By Sam Jones Dolphins, pilot whales and sperm whales ... all while conserving air deep beneath the ocean’s surface. And the animals use the vocal fry register for echolocation.