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The Strange, Fading Call of the Narwhal

• ariehkovler 8y ago
  Ah, but when does it bacon? ducks
  • benbristow 8y ago
    During the day
• nyankosensei 8y ago
  Link to the paper mentioned in the article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198295 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
• cetalingua 8y ago
  Even with a tag attached to a whale it is still impossible to be completely sure who made a sound. This is a big issue that has been haunting marine mammal communication research for decades. Hard to establish the function of the call when it is not clear who made it and who replied.
• stephenhuey 8y ago
  Love these creatures, and I actually thought they were just fantasy for a long time! I like the Narwhal imperial stout and one time I noticed that the information about the animal on the bottle was written in such a way that you might think they're actually real so I looked online and was stunned to find out that as fantastical as they seem, they actually exist!
  • okmokmz 8y ago
    Haha, sounds like you were one of the lucky 10,000 that day
  • cgriswald 8y ago
    The realization that narwhals are real was a Mandela Effect[0] moment for me. [0] https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/07/24/the-mandela-effect/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/07/24/the-mandela-effect/
• Immortalin 8y ago
  These are beautiful creatures, I even named my startup after them. https://KloudTrader.com/Narwhal https://KloudTrader.com/Narwhal
• ng12 8y ago
  One of my favorite narwhal tidbits is that Viking settlers in Greenland would sell the tusks in continental European markets as unicorn horns: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/its-sensitive-really.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/its-sensitive-...