al@psivax.UUCP (Al Schwartz) (08/10/85)
[ Maybe this should have been posted to net.music :-) ]
Sausalito, CA (UPI) - A mysterious underwater hum that has kept house boaters
awake for several summers in this affluent town on San Fransisco Bay may be
the mating call of the singing toad fish.
"These critters could be it" said John McCosker, director of the Steinhart
Aquarium after nearly a dozen of the fish, also known as the plainfin
midshipman fish, were found not far from the the Golden Gate Bridge.
The hum, which occurs only on summer nights, sounds like a muffled electric
razor and and causes harmonic vibrations on the hulls of houseboats.
McCosker said the hum could be coming from male toad fish whose mating call
he described as a "romantic hoo-hooing".
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Al Schwartz
Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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