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Love Songs Of Bowhead Whales: Whales Sings With 'More Than One Voice'


Environment  (tags: Science, whales, bowhead, songs, research, study, discovery, performance, interesting, globalwarming )

Dee
- 119 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2009)-It wasn't that many years ago that the bowhead whale was written off as extinct in the waters around Greenland and especially in Disko Bay in northwest Greenland where University of Copenhagen has its Arctic Field Station.
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Dee C. (513)
Monday August 3, 2009, 8:56 am
"But now the situation has changed and adult bowhead whales, which can grow up to 18 metres long and weigh 100 tons, have returned to the bay. This is probably because global warming has opened up the Northwest Passage, making it ice free at certain times of the year for the first time in 125,000 years. This gives bowhead whales from the northern Pacific a chance to reach Disko Bay and mate with the small local population."

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Mandi T. (262)
Monday August 3, 2009, 8:59 am
Good news. Tks Dee.
 

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Monday August 3, 2009, 9:43 am
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Monday August 3, 2009, 11:06 am
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Elena P. (503)
Monday August 3, 2009, 2:49 pm
Thank you Dee.
 

KRISTEN B. (107)
Monday August 3, 2009, 5:52 pm
THANK YOU DEE..
 

Karen S. (97)
Monday August 3, 2009, 7:37 pm
Thanks Dee. It would be amazing to hear their songs. But that aside, this sounds like good news and bad news to me. While warming temperatures have contributed to the survival of the bowhead whales in the waters around Greenland, it is still disturbing that the phenomena of warming waters is not likely just a transient occurance. :-(
 

Marie Rains (3)
Monday August 3, 2009, 8:09 pm
I love any stories about whale and dolphin songs. :D
 

Simone D. (890)
Tuesday August 4, 2009, 12:20 am
Thank you Dee. Lovely.
 

Marty H. (72)
Tuesday August 4, 2009, 1:36 am
Thanks Dee, here is a short youtube of one of their songs in case anyone is interested;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyVWOlLJCu4
 
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