Damien Garcia🦖
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Damien Garcia🦖
@damieng-falun33.bsky.social
⚠️Looking for a PhD in vertebrate paleontology.

Enthusiasm & interests:
Mammals, Artiodactyls🐋🦌🦒/Sharks🦈/Mollusks & echinids🐚
Reposted by Damien Garcia🦖
A 45-million-year-old cetacean brain exhibits prominent olfactory regions, indicating that early whales retained a sense of smell 🐳🧠
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

@smnstuttgart.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Damien Garcia🦖
🦑 #Marineresearch
🐋 #whales

New research into #baleenwhale vocalizations shows species that fight back against #Orca attacks use higher frequencies. Whale species that flee from Orca use sounds in frequencies below orca hearing range

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Most “flight” baleen whale species are acoustically cryptic to killer whales, unlike “fight” species
Killer whales regularly attack and kill baleen whales, especially their calves. In response, slow-moving maneuverable “fight” species defend their calves in winter aggregations in predictable shallow...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM