Critically endangered whales sing like birds; new recordings hint at rebound (w/ audio)
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) -- When a University of Washington researcher listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a year in the icy waters off the east coast of Greenland, she was stunned at what she heard: whales singing a remarkable variety of songs nearly constantly for five wintertime months.