Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Harbor_Porpoise_Fjord_Baelt_Denmark
Porpoise in captivity (Photo: Wikipedia) - Credit: Porpoise in captivity (Photo: Wikipedia)
Nature
Innovation
Zierikzee
jetty
porpoises
Stichting Rugvin
Oosterschelde
Tuesday, 25 October 2016 - 14:40
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Listen to porpoises on the Zierikzee jetty

A special technical installation on the jetty of Zierikzee makes it possible for people to hear the porpoises in the Oosterschelde. The porpoise sounds are captured using a hydrophone, which is attached to a buoy in front of the coast, ANP reports.

"With the push of a button the visitor hears the sounds the aimals emit." initiator Frank Zanderink of Stichting Rugvin said. The porpoise is the smallest species of cetaceans found in the Netherlands.

About 30 porpoises live in the Oosterschelde. For underwater orientation, to communicate and catch fish they transmit high frequency sounds, which they catch again when the sounds rebound.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Container ship crews play a key role in cocaine trade via Dutch ports
  • Regional train drivers to join next week's public transport strike
  • No excess mortality in last two weeks of January
  • Delft students present world's "most efficient" hydrogen car
  • Signal failure briefly halts train traffic around A'dam; NS warns of significant delays
  • Over 75% drop in fraud with Marktplaats payment requests

Top stories

  • Signal failure briefly halts train traffic around A'dam; NS warns of significant delays
  • Matching medicine dosage to patient's DNA can cut side effects 30%: LUMC
  • Dutch airports' traveler numbers not yet back to pre-pandemic levels in 2022
  • Dutch parliamentarians support €57 rent reduction for low-income households
  • European office to gather proof of war crimes in Ukraine will set up in The Hague
  • Nine suspects arrested in Netherlands for 50 ATM bombings in Germany

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content