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"Late in the evening, the Antarctic sky flushes pink. The male leopard seal
wakes and slips from the ice into the water. There, he’ll spend the night
singing underwater amongst the floating ice floes.
For the next two months he sings every night. He will sing so loudly, the ice
around him vibrates. Each song is a sequence of trills and hoots, performed in
a particular pattern.
In a world first, we analysed leopard seal songs and found the predictability
of their patterns was remarkably similar to the nursery rhymes humans sing.
We think this is a deliberate strategy. While leopard seals are solitary
animals, the males need their call to carry clearly across vast stretches of
icy ocean, to woo a mate."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
