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December 12, 2003
If it looks like a herring…
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and it smells like a herring…
A high pitched, “raspberry-like” sound observed eminating from certain oceanic depths has befuddled scientists for some time now. Dubbed an FRT (fast repetitive tick), these sounds seemed to be originating from some sort of living creature, but were unlike any that had previously been documented… Until now:
“Biologists have linked a mysterious, underwater farting sound to bubbles coming out of a herring’s anus. No fish had been known to emit sound from its anus nor to be capable of producing such a high-pitched noise.”
You can even hear a .wav sound clip of a fish FRTing, if that’s your type of thing.
Read the article here at NewScientist.com. Seriously. And don’t forget to visit some of the sponsors down the bottom of the left-hand sidebar.