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Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear [ENCORE] /272

For The Wild

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Bowhead Whales and Humpback Whales Singing

With bow heads and humpbacks both singing, will this create a confusing atmosphere as more and more humpbacks cross paths with bow head? And are you beginning to see competition for food sources with the introduction of new apex preditors like orcas o that you've sort of a hit on the cruck of what i would say is my research right now, it's wy. I probably don't have any good answers for you. But both bowhead whales and humpback whales, of all the large whale species, they're the only two species to sing lex varying songs that change year to year. With bowheads, they change within a year. And so these are the two great singers

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