{"id":24806,"date":"2025-03-27T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24806"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:28:36","slug":"a-sharks-sounds-are-recorded-for-what-is-believed-to-be-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24806","title":{"rendered":"A Shark\u2019s Sounds Are Recorded for What Is Believed to Be the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers in New Zealand have recorded what they believe is the first instance of a shark actively making noise.<\/p>\n

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Audio of a rig shark recorded by scientists at the Leigh Marine Laboratory at the University of Auckland.<\/span>Paul Caiger<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dolphins whistle. Whales sing. Fish croak, chirp, grunt, hum and growl. But in the chatter of the sea, one voice has been missing \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n

Sharks have long been seen as the silent killers of the water. But scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand recently recorded a rig shark, or Mustelus lenticulatus, making a sharp clicking sound, most likely by snapping its teeth together, according to findings published in the journal Royal Society Open Science<\/a> on Wednesday. They believe it\u2019s the first time a shark has been recorded actively making noise.<\/p>\n

The lead researcher, Carolin Nieder, first heard the sound while she was researching the hearing abilities of sharks. While she was handling one shark, it made a clicking, snapping sound similar to that of an electric spark, she said.<\/p>\n

The noise came from a rig shark, a fairly small shark common in the waters around New Zealand that grows to up to five feet and mainly eats crustaceans. It is eaten by bigger shark species \u2014 and by New Zealanders, who use it to make fish and chips.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Nieder was taken aback when she heard the noise.<\/p>\n

Other sea creatures have mechanisms for making sound. Fish, for example, have a swim bladder, a gas-filled sac that is used for buoyancy but can also be used as a kind of drum. Many fish have a muscle that can vibrate the swim bladder in a way similar to a human\u2019s vocal cords, generating sounds.<\/p>\n

But sharks \u201cwere thought to be silent, unable to actively create sounds,\u201d Dr. Nieder said.<\/p>\n

For the study, she and her co-authors observed the behavior of 10 rig sharks housed in tanks equipped with underwater microphones. They found that all 10 sharks would begin to make the clicking noise when they were being moved between tanks or gently held.<\/p>\n

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Researchers in New Zealand have recorded what they believe is the first instance of a shark actively making noise.Audio of a rig shark recorded by scientists at the Leigh Marine Laboratory at the University of Auckland.Paul CaigerDolphins whistle. Whales sing. Fish croak, chirp, grunt, hum and growl. But in the chatter of the sea, one voice has been missing \u2014 until now.Sharks have long been seen as the silent killers of the water. But scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand recently recorded a rig shark, or Mustelus lenticulatus, making a sharp clicking sound, most likely by snapping its teeth together, according to findings published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Wednesday. They believe it\u2019s the first time a shark has been recorded actively making noise.The lead researcher, Carolin Nieder, first heard the sound while she was researching the hearing abilities of sharks. While she was handling one shark, it made a clicking, snapping sound similar to that of an electric spark, she said.The noise came from a rig shark, a fairly small shark common in the waters around New Zealand that grows to up to five feet and mainly eats crustaceans. It is eaten by bigger shark species \u2014 and by New Zealanders, who use it to make fish and chips.Dr. Nieder was taken aback when she heard the noise.Other sea creatures have mechanisms for making sound. Fish, for example, have a swim bladder, a gas-filled sac that is used for buoyancy but can also be used as a kind of drum. Many fish have a muscle that can vibrate the swim bladder in a way similar to a human\u2019s vocal cords, generating sounds.But sharks \u201cwere thought to be silent, unable to actively create sounds,\u201d Dr. Nieder said.For the study, she and her co-authors observed the behavior of 10 rig sharks housed in tanks equipped with underwater microphones. They found that all 10 sharks would begin to make the clicking noise when they were being moved between tanks or gently held.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24808,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24809,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions\/24809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}