Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Critically-endangered bowheads are the songsmiths of the whale family



Bowhead whale

Researchers from the University of Washington have found that the critically endangered bowhead whale has a wide catalogue of songs that more closely resembles that of songbirds, than other whales.


Oceanographer Kate Stafford left two underwater microphones on the seafloor off the east coast of Greenland, to find out if any bowhead whales passed through the Fram Strait.


By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/01/whale-song

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