Research by Julia Zeh and Julia Dombroski, both Ph.D. candidates in biology, and Susan Parks, professor of biology and principal investigator of the Bioacoustics and Behavioral Ecology Lab in A&S, was featured in The Washington Post, Earth.com and ABC News (Australia). The articles highlighted the team’s findings that whale mothers choose nursery sites in shallow waters where predators cannot “eavesdrop” on communication between a mother and her young.