The Science behind Humpback Whales’ Eerie Songs
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:25.0 | Contentful, where content drives business momentum. Those are the haunting melodies of Baleen whales reverberating through the ocean waves. |
| 0:44.3 | Many people across the globe are familiar with the 1970 album Songs of the Humpback Whale, produced |
| 0:50.1 | by biologist Roger Payne. |
| 0:52.4 | While I was just a little bit too young to have caught |
| 0:55.3 | its release I remember seeing the CD for sale at Walmart alongside other |
| 0:59.6 | calming tracks for meditation. You could press a button to get a preview of each album |
| 1:06.7 | and all of a sudden as you stood on the concrete floors in front of a display of |
| 1:10.5 | posters, the eerie songs of the humpback would fill your ears. |
| 1:15.0 | Now, scientists believe they have discovered how humpbacks and other baleen whales produce |
| 1:21.0 | these unique sounds. Their findings published online last month |
| 1:25.3 | may also explain why noise pollution from ships hinders the whale's ability to communicate. |
| 1:37.0 | Hi, I'm Devon Farmolo and you're listening to science quickly. Even after songs of the hump bag whale popularize whale songs and increase public awareness of the animals decline, they remained an enigma. |
| 1:51.0 | But we know very little of them and one of the reasons is because if they beach are stranded on beaches, |
| 1:56.4 | then it's really hard to get there on time. |
| 1:58.2 | The tissues they have decompose incredibly fast and Wales as you know may know they also have been known to explode on the beach |
| 2:06.7 | so you have to get there really fast in order to study physiology. |
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