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Milou

@milouh.bsky.social

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Biologist & veterinarian, currently working as a bat ecologist in the Netherlands 🦇

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Frants Jensen @frantsjensen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

New paper alert! 🐋🔊 #Pilotwhales are highly social toothed whales that rely on sound to stay connected. But what happens when the ocean gets noisy? 🐋🔊 Check out our new paper in JEB led by Milou Hegeman: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... #OceanNoise #Bioacoustics #Masking #MSFD

A pod of long-finned pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar, surfacing right behind a cargo vessel. Credit: Philippe Verborgh, CIRCE

A pod of long-finned pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar. Credit: Philippe Verborgh, CIRCE

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Strait of Gibraltar is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world and is also home to an endangered population of long-finned pilot whales. Recently, @milouh.bsky.social & co showed that these whales now need to shout to make themselves heard over the noisy ships doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

A pod of long-finned pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar. Photo credit: CIRCE (Conservación, Información y Estudio sobre Cetáceos).

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