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"Sausalito Hum"
[edit]One of this family may have been identified as a possible source for the "Sausalito Hum", a sound heard during the summer months by houseboat dwellers near Sausalito, California, in San Francisco Bay. Some articles referred to the animal in question as the "singing toad-fish" or the "plainfin midshipman", but this species doesn't seem to be covered by the article. The sound was certainly loud enough to be heard through the hull of a boat at anchor, and as television viewers in the San Francisco Bay Area could attest, was intense enough to be coupled into the air so that television camera microphones were able to record the sound from a boat dock.—QuicksilverT @ 19:57, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
- Sounds like the relevant species would be one of the Batrachoididae, more specifically a Midshipman fish. A reliable reference should tell us. The information (when sourced) should go into the relevant article, not this common-name page (although Midshipman fish seems to already have a partial reference to this). -- Radagast3 (talk) 21:31, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Songs
[edit]They are also singers: Surfaced by SciShow, from 08 min 36 secs: Animal Melodies: 5 of Nature’s Sweetest Singers
I expected to find more information about it in this in article.
Or is "song" a stretch?