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Robot built to spy on whales

Autonomous device should help protect animals from ships

An underwater robot that can hear the calls of whales, and so help ships to avoid them, has just been successfully trialled in the Bahamas.

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Posted by Katharine Sanderson on April 27, 2007 05:58 PM |

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I hope they can use this to finally get a good movie of a battle between a whale and a giant squid!

Posted by: Nicolau Werneck | April 30, 2007 09:54 PM

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