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Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs
Scientists plan to test whether sharks enjoy listening to Christmas pop songs, after US research showed fish could recognize melody. Chris Brown, senior marine biologist at the Loch Lomond aquarium, said seasonal music would be played through walkthrough underwater tunnels where they can be heard by dozens of nurse sharks, black-tip reef sharks, and ray species. Experts will then monitor the sharks' reactions to different songs. We'll play everything from Kim Wilde and Mel Smith's Rocking Around the Christmas Tree and Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade to Wham's Last Christmas. We may find they prefer something softer like White Christmas by Bing Crosby," Brown said. Thank you for answering this question science.
A "Great" White Christmas.
who says our tax dollars aren't being put to good use?
I think we're gonna need a bigger grant...
Sharks with frickin' christmas tunes stuck in their heads...?
Half year or so the new idle was introduced - fine with me. Some stupid stories to waste time, nicely grouped together.
Then a few months ago now and then idle stories started making the front page. Acceptable, easy to filter using preferences.
But nowadays I see two, three of these idle type stories hit the front page every day! Now this stupid shark thing, masking as a science story. Appropriately tagged 'idle' already.
Please editors: keep idle type stories in the idle section, not in other sections, so we can filter them out if we like. And only real science stories in the science section. It's what those sections are made for, right?