We were fascinated to read in this morning's New Zealand Herald that Danish researchers have discovered that Bowhead whales change their songs from year to year and never repeat songs from previous years "like human pop music." The scientists from the University of Copenhagen have been studying the whales in Disko Bay, on Disko Island - just off Denmark - and say the whales "sometimes sing with more than one voice" and produce "two different songs which are then mixed together" in order to attract new mates. Given the funky, old school (sorry) location, and the mixing process, we wonder which songs these might be exactly? Let No Man Put Us Under, Everybody Get Down, Going In Circles and Fantastic Voyage would all rate a mention...
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