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Southern right whale snoring

'On calm days whales often appear to be sleeping. They are so unresponsive and motionless that they do not open and close their nostrils properly. Inhaling and exhaling becomes snoring!'
-From the CD 'Deep Voices', produced by Dr Roger Payne

credit: Iain Kerr

   
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