When I was in the Navy, my job was tracking submarines. On our mid watches, we could listen to whale song. Beautiful sounds. Close your eyes and listen. It is almost eerie. Thank you so much for posting this.
My advice to those who spots one of these in the beach, float in the water facing the sky with your ears submerged in the water. Its the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard. This was recently in Waimea beach in Oahu.
Wow the pattern is so cool, one loud vocalisation, a pause, then 3 shorter blasts, then another longer pause and one longer vocalisation. Repeats in that pattern 3 or 4 times in a row!
Wow there’s a clear structure here. You can see the downbeats/beat as those large columns. There’s sections to it, and then it changes, almost like modulation, in a smooth but seemingly predictable way. (I know nothing about it, but that’s an interpretation from this listen/visitation). Surely courtship related? Like a dance or display?
I'm reading a paper right now that says it may have a function for better memory too!! Whale songs will stay the same until around mating season where the song can change. The song is then remembered by individuals for the next season. It shows that whales enculturate each other to determine their population! Super cool!!
After about a year of not having the live stream microphone I guess it's never coming back? I emailed MBARI about 6 or 7 months ago and they said it would be back on line 'as early as next week'. I really miss checking it out a few times a day!
That was really interesting. Do you know/suspect whether all of that came from just one whale, or would that have been a conversation between more than one whale? Thanks foe sharing it with us.
Rock and roll. They are singing to comunicate their feelings. They must be more intelligent than os. No war between Fellows. Just sexuals fights amongst Males. Woooew. How nice it would be, when broke the code (fully) to their language. Great greatings from Denmark Jimbo 👍
No one used a whale's call in songs as of I know till now. Music composer Govind Vasantha used it so efficiently in his 'Kaadale Kaadale' song from the Tamil movie '96' that it keeps you haunting. Soo good. You can listen it in the middle of this song, and at the very end. Link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lkPI-45gxBw.html
