He spent years cataloguing orca families' unique dialects. Now you can hear them
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Marine scientist John Ford has catalogued orca calls for over 45 years, beginning in the late 1970s. Simon Fraser University's HALLO project has now published an online database of these recordings, organized by population, clan and pod, allowing anyone to listen to and compare real orca vocalizations to identify which family groups are present in coastal waters.
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