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Discovery of organ explains koalas’ super-bass notes

Brian Owens · December 2, 2013 ·

Throat structure explains why male mating calls are bizarrely deeper than expected for the animal’s size. For such diminutive animals, male koalas have an uncannily deep voice. The pitch of their bellowing mating call is 20 times lower than would be anticipated for their size, and more like something you would hear from an elephant, […]

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