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The whales who love to sing in the dark

Scientists studying a group of bowhead whales in the North Atlantic say their communication is as diverse as that of songbirds. They have found that the whales sang nearly two hundred different song types over three years, as they travelled beneath the Arctic Sea ice. Dr Kate Stafford is an oceanographer from the University of Washington.

(Photo: a bowhead whale. Credits: Kit Kovacs/Norwegian Polar Institute)

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