Ep. 7: Calls of killer whales with Hannah Myers - Listen - Alaska

Ep. 7: Calls of killer whales with Hannah Myers

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Hannah Myers is a graduate student and a killer whale linguist. She has listened to hundreds of underwater recordings from which she can identify distinct families of whales. Myers and other researchers found that killer whales hang offshore of the Gulf of Alaska even during winter, when salmon are no longer headed for their birth streams.

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