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Here’s what narwhals sound like underwater

Submersible recorders pick up the animals’ clicks, calls and buzzes

researchers with a narwhal

TURN IT UP  Researchers put an acoustic tagging device on a male narwhal to record its underwater clicks, buzzes and calls.  

S. Blackwell

By Leah Rosenbaum

- More than 2 years ago

Narwhals are among the most elusive of whales. But for the first time, researchers have been able to eavesdrop on the creatures for days at a time as these unicorns of the sea dove, fed and socialized.