A conversation of narwhals.Individual narwhals, the Arctic whales with spiraled unicorn-like tusks, can make individual sounds that may help other narwhals recognize them or help them reunite with their group. Ari Shapiro Ari Shapiro is a reporter with National Public Radio reporting on Justice. He has filed hundreds of stories since he began reporting there in 2001. Before working full-time as a reporter for NPR, Shapiro freelanced stories for NPR and member station WAMU in , a biological oceanography graduate student in MIT/WHOI Joint Program (see page 20), and colleagues used digital-recording devices temporarily suction-cupped to two narwhals in Admiralty Bay on Baffin Island, Canada. "For the first time, we could really 'ride' with the animals as they were vocalizing and as they were moving," said Shapiro, who reported the findings in the September 2006 issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (abbreviated J. Acoust. Soc. Am. or JASA) is a scientific journal in the field of acoustics, published by the Acoustical Society of America. It contains technical articles on sound, vibration, speech and other topics. . |
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