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Re: new research on ocean noise and blue whales

Subject: Re: new research on ocean noise and blue whales
From: "Richard Ranft" richard6054
Date: Fri Mar 2, 2012 4:24 pm ((PST))
On a related subject, an interesting note of a rarely observed but possibly=

not uncommon behaviour: a whale, in this case a fin whale, reacting to an
earthquake in the Gulf of California by swimming 13 km in 26 min, presumabl=
y
in reaction to the intense natural noise:

http://www.bioacoustics.info/article/reaction-fin-whales-balaenoptera-physa=
lus-earthquake

Richard Ranft
UK





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