• the whale only known by its sound

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 4 12:44:10 2023
    https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-whale-thats-known-only-by-the-sound-of-its-voice/

    Scientists have dubbed this enigmatic animal the Cross Seamount beaked whale
    because it was near the Cross Seamount—an underwater mountain off
    southwestern Hawai‘i—that they first heard its calls in 2005. Since then,
    scientists haven’t been quite sure what to make of it. Some think the whale
    might be a known species—maybe it’s actually the poorly understood
    ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, an animal understood mostly from strandings.
    Or maybe, McCullough suggests, it’s a previously undiscovered one: “I’m not
    taking it off the table,” she says.

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