Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Biologists witness first case of a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/shark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shark</span></a> intentionally making sounds <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-biologists-witness-case-shark-intentionally.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-03-biologis</span><span class="invisible">ts-witness-case-shark-intentionally.html</span></a></p><p>Evidence of active sound production by a shark: Carolin Nieder et al. <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242212" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rsos.242212</span></a></p><p>"the clicks are made by the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sharks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sharks</span></a> rubbing their teeth together. Such clicking sounds could serve as a means to momentarily confuse predators, such as fur seals... it is unlikely the sounds are calls for help from others of their kind, as most of the frequencies were higher than the range of shark hearing."</p>