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Hooligans on the run!
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From: John Ryan
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From: John Ryan
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Winner, 2007 PRNDI award for Best News Series
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From: John Ryan
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Victoria Secretes
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Piece Description
In December, the Japanese government agreed not to target humpback whales during its annual whale hunt now under way off Antarctica. Humpbacks that swim in U.S. waters don't head that far south. As John Ryan of station KTOO in Juneau, Alaska, reports, most of Alaska's humpback whales are in Hawaii this time of year, where they don't have to worry about avoiding hunters. There's another difference -- a very loud difference -- between Alaska's humpback whales and humpbacks in other parts of the world. Here's John Ryan.
Broadcast History
KTOO-FM, Juneau, AK, 01/24/08
Alaska Public Radio Network, 01/25/08
Transcript
Most hunters use stealth to catch their prey.
04elmerfudd Be vewy, vewy quiet, I?m hunting wabbits, ha-ha-ha.
Then there?s humpback whales.
26whalesong [WHALE CALLS]
These are the calls of a group of humpbacks as they cooperatively hunt herring in Frederick Sound near Petersburg ALASKA. University of Washington researcher Kate Stafford recorded them aboard the John N. Cobb last summer.
Humpbacks don?t always hunt by using sound, or blowing nets of air bubbles, or lunging out of the sea. But scientists and tourists alike enjoy witnessing humpbacks hunting and eating together.
[SNEAK UP EXCITED WHALE TOURISTS MID-TRAK]
Here?s whale-watch tour guide Anthony Andrews standing on the roof of the Orca Odyssey tour boat near Juneau last fall.
04anthony1 I really wish you guys wd get a chance to see bubble netting, that?s a time where they use vocal commands, I?ll never fo...
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Timing and Cues
In December, the Japanese government agreed not to target humpback whales during its annual whale hunt now under way off Antarctica. Humpbacks that swim in U.S. waters don?t head that far south. As John Ryan of station KTOO in Juneau, Alaska, reports, most of Alaska?s humpback whales are in Hawaii this time of year, where they don?t have to worry about avoiding hunters.
There?s another difference ? a very loud difference ? between Alaska?s humpback whales and humpbacks in other parts of the world. Here?s John Ryan.
