DAILYMAIL : SCIENCE: SECRET LIFE OF HUMPBACK WHALES includes recording of sounds
Excerpt: The team from the universities of Exeter and Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Greenpeace Research Laboratories, recorded sounds at the Vema Seamount in the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles west of South Africa.
Whale sounds are categorized into continuous 'song' and shorter 'non-song' calls 0 and the study recorded 600 non-song calls over 11 days.
These included an 'impulsive sound' == dubbed 'gunshot' by the researchers --that has never been recorded before.
They also captured 'whup' and 'grumble' calls, suggesting this location could be an important stop on the whales' migration to polar feeding grounds.
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