Freeze and Flee: The Costly 'Escape' Response of Narwhal (IMAGE)

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Freeze and Flee: The Costly 'Escape' Response of Narwhal

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Greenland narwhals. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 8, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.M. Williams at University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Paradoxical escape responses by narwhals (Monodon Monoceros)."

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M.P. Heide-Jorgensen

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