A video of the Minke Whale rescue and refloat at Levenwick this morning filmed by Hugh. Discovered stranded and beached on the sand at 0700 it swam off strongly to deep, open water five hours later thanks to the immense efforts of many. | Shetland Wildlife

🐳 The dwarf minke whale emits the so called "Star Wars" vocalization, a complex, stereotyped call often described as "almost synthetic, metallic, or mechanical." ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Video Credit: Julia Sumerling @seajewlz ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ #Whales #DwarfMinkeWhale #SeaLife #MarineLife #Ocean #Alaska | Grays Harbor Historical Seaport

Listen to the first ever recording of a dwarf minke whale... they sound like lightsabers! Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough starts 30 December on BBC One | BBC Earth

20K views · 1.9K reactions | : Julia Sumerling (@seajewlz) // In 2004, Dr. Jason Gedamke was recording underwater sounds in the Great Barrier Reef, and discovered the dwarf minke is the source of an unusual, complex, and stereotyped vocalization called the “star wars” call. Volume up to hear it! This regional-specific behavioral distinction suggests aggregate or community adaptive behaviors among subspecies of minke whales. | Ocean Conservation Research - OCR | Facebook