Hell, Richard, when I was scientific co-director of the team that
lured Humphrey the Whale out of San Francisco Bay in October/November
1985, and the "trapped" humpback (actually a female) heard the Alaskan
feeding sounds through the underwater speaker off our boat, it covered
400m in 15 seconds, at first, and then 49 miles (79km) to SF Bay in 7
hours before darkness fell and we lost it til the next day. Damned
things can move when they need to. And that was lured, not stressed.
Bernie
On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Richard Ranft wrote:
> 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,
> presumably
> in reaction to the intense natural noise:
>
> http://www.bioacoustics.info/article/reaction-fin-whales-balaenoptera-phy=
salus-earthquake
>
> Richard Ranft
> UK
>
>
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