Eerie sounds emitted by some of the world's largest animals will screech through the University of Utah's Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building, during a free public lecture Wednesday.
Christopher W. Clark, director of the bioacoustics research program at the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, N.Y., will deliver the lecture starting at 7:30 p.m. He will discuss the variety of sounds made by baleen whales.Clark has listened to recordings of a whale's sounds that were recorded 1,600 miles from the whale. Questions scientists are trying to answer include whether the sounds interact with the environment and whether whales are communicating.
The talk is sponsored by the University of Utah's College of Science.