Word: weilgart
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...dispute pits environmentalists against one another: those who worry more about global warming vs. those who fret more about animal welfare. Lindy Weilgart, a Cornell University expert on whale acoustics, pointed out at hearings before the National Marine Fisheries Service that whales and other marine mammals rely on exquisitely sensitive hearing for hunting, navigating and socializing. Noise pollution from the experiment, she fears, could disrupt the mating and migration patterns of hundreds of thousands of animals. As Weilgart put it, "A deaf whale is a dead whale...
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