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I like to imagine the sound of them being born is pop pop pop

I wonder if this sound is picked up by the hydrophone monitoring system, but never explored because of the pecking order of the organizations that operate them.

> never explored because of the pecking order of the organizations that operate them.

INAMB (I'm not a marine biologist), but one of my best friends is. And I can say that the profession is refreshingly light hearted. At least, compared to other scientific disciplines. Here you can hear actual marine biologists in real time discovering a new species at the bottom of the ocean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEhYJEQmExE

They sound like 5 year olds who have just found an abandoned kitten at the park, don't they? Can you see this kind of people withholding measurements because of pecking order issues?

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