And the key to that rapid spread, Owen says, might be a newly studied hub of cetacean musical exchange: the uninhabited Kermadec Islands, north of New Zealand, where whales from all over the South Pacific converge en route to Antarctica.
欧文表示,迅速传播的关键,可能是人们最近研究的一个鲸类音乐交流中心:新西兰以北无人居住的克马德克群岛,南太平洋各地的鲸鱼在前往南极的途中都会聚集在那里。