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News
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Reporting
from around the world. . .
Following
a massive magnitude 8.1 earthquake off the coast of Tonga, we head
to American Samoa to see how they are responding to the warnings
of a possible tsunami.
Europe
has been suffering through one of the worst floods in a hundred
years. We get a report from Bucharest, Romania.
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The
ongoing assault of sonar and other man-made disasters for marine
mammals and more.
Michael
Jasny
from
Vancouver
This
week, over 400 dolphins were found stranded, dead and dying on the
coast of Tanzania. Many are speculating that this may be yet
another disaster to the oceans' creatures resulting from the
catastrophic sounds of submarine underwater sonar. This is just
one of the many sonic assaults on the living ocean, struggling now
to survive.
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Segment 3
Starlings'
Surprising Speech
Dr.
Timothy Gentner
Assistant
Professor
Psychology
Department
UCSD
University
of California San Diego
Dr.
Gentner has been studying the ability of the European Starling,
one of the world's most accomplished singers and mimics, to
understand and create complex patterns of song that indicate the
capacity to utilize recursion. What's it mean?
They've
got a lot to say, and they know what they're talking about.
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