SonarHypothesis
Book challenges ideas about why whales sing
Book challenges ideas about why whales sing University at Buffalo professor Eduardo Mercado III challenges the long-held scientific consensus that whales sing as a courtship display. Mercado’s new book “Why Whales Sing?” proposes an alternative explanation: whales use their songs to explore and scan their surroundings, effectively using sound as sonar. The sonar hypothesis directly […]
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