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The song calls of Antarctic blue whales are so deep that they're almost infrasonic. You feel them as much as you hear them.
In fact, scientists are not even sure how the whales make their sounds.
GUESTS:
Dr Mike Double, Leader of the Australian Marine Mammal Centre
Dr Brian Miller, acoustician, Australian Antarctic Division
Dr Natalia Schmitt, geneticist, McMaster University, Canada
Audio of radio communication onboard the Tangaroa supplied by Australia-New Zealand Antarctic Ecosystem Voyage 2015 and is © National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).
For RN Summer we're playing some our favourite Off Track programs. This program was first broadcast in 2017.
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