What in the world? The wails bleating out of the phone sound more like science fiction than science. Yet, on the other end of the line, entomologist Rex Cocroft swears that he’s playing a recording he made on this very planet. A whale with a very bad cold?
Nope. It’s a phone-friendly version of a treehopper insect’s call.
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