Can Sound Save a Fish? (AUDIO)

University of Texas at Austin

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In this episode of the Point of Discovery podcast: Gulf Corvina look pretty ordinary -- they're a couple of feet long and silvery. Yet the sounds they make -- when millions get together to spawn -- are a kind of wonder of the natural world. It's also why they are in danger. When Erisman put a microphone in the water for the first time, he was blown away by the sounds he heard.

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Marc Airhart/Univ. of Texas at Austin

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