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7/21/18

LISTEN TO THE BOWHEAD WHALE MAKE JAZZ MUSIC UNDER THE SEA!


NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC : BOWHEAD WHALE JAZZ MUSICIAN OF SEA  by Carrie Arnold

EXCERPT:  New recordings of the little - studied bowhead whale show that the mammals sing intricate and variable songs - more like jazz musicians than Beethoven or Bach.

Other whale songs are predictable and simple ditties repeated over and over throughout seasons or years, says study leader Kate Stafford, a marine biologist at the University of Washington.

"With bowheads, there are lots of different songs.  Every year, it's just completely different."


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