A whale chorus reveals how climate change may be shifting migration

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by Sara HUSSEIN TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Eerie wails, explosive trumpets and ghostly moans. The sounds from the underwater recorders had a story to tell, even without a single intelligible word: the whales had stayed put. The recordings gathered during the 2018-2019 winter in the freezing cold Arctic waters off Canada proved that a population of bowhead whales had skipped their usual migration south. Scientists believe this behaviour — never previously detected — could be […]