The Gold Coast Bulletin

Whispering humpbacks

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the corner and dead-end.

“There were a lot of people standing on the corner. Heaps of people watching.”

Another resident said he rushed to the scene when he ‘oh s**’ it’s a heard sirens a few down from his home.

A woman told police she was meditating near the water when she heard a splash and saw a group of “males” run away, he said. doors BABY humpback whales “whisper” to their mothers to avoid attracting attention, scientists in Western Australia have discovered.

The quiet communicat­ion reduces the chances of being overheard by killer whales and sexually rampant male humpbacks looking for a mate.

Humpbacks are known for their loud, haunting songs, but a study using microphone tags showed that, while with their mums, newborns uttered intimate grunts and squeaks only heard nearby. The study was done in Exmouth Gulf by Denmark’s University of Aarhus.

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