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Seals in the Thames, killing boto to catch catfish, and animal screams: Thursday Afternoon Dredging: August 3, 2017

Posted on August 3, 2017August 4, 2017 By David Shiffman
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We’re back after a 3 week conference attendance break!

Cuttings (short and sweet):

  • Watch this blue-spotted stingray swim around an Oregon aquarium!
  • Follow Dr. Kyle Newton, shark sensory ecologist, on twitter!
  • Screams heard round the world: humans can easily recognize alarm calls of other animals. By Karen Hopkin, for Scientific American.
  • Seals return to the Thames estuary is going swimmingly. By Damian Carrington, for the Guardian.
  • AUTHOR’S NOTE: One link (to a twitter thread on scientist lab superstitions) has been removed due to some culturally insensitive comments in the thread. 

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