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Science 8 February 1980:
Vol. 207. no. 4431, pp. 663 - 665
DOI: 10.1126/science.207.4431.663
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Sound Playback Experiments with Southern Right Whales (Eubalaena australis)

CHRISTOPHER W. CLARK 1 and JANE M. CLARK 1

1 Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794

A variety of sound recordings were played to southern right whales. Whales approached the loudspeaker and made frequent sounds in response to recordings of other southern right whales, but swam away and made relatively few sounds in response to playbacks of water noise, 200-hertz tones, and humpback whale sounds. Thus it appears that southern right whales can differentiate between con-specific sounds and other sounds.

Submitted on June 15, 1979
Revised on September 26, 1979


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