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A flock of corn buntings recorded in a farmer’s field in Stotfold in Bedfordshire in January was estimated at 700 – 4 per cent of the entire UK...
Navy sonar
30th June 2010
Navy sonar resembles the noises used by orcas when they are tracking prey. According to scientists from St Andrews University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, this could explain mass stranding events of other whale and dolphin species.
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