Freeze and Flee: The Costly "Escape" Response of Narwhals (10 of 15) (IMAGE)

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Freeze and Flee: The Costly "Escape" Response of Narwhals (10 of 15)

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Author of the paper radio tracking in Scoresby Sound, Greenland in search of a heart rate monitor that has been released from a narwhal. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 8 Dec. 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.M. Williams at University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Paradoxical escape responses by narwhals (Monodon Monoceros)."

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T.M. Williams

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