Whale Dreaming

http://songlinesofthewhales.org

We would like to introduce you to Venus and her calf Cupid. She is a whale we have known since 1995. She was adopted by the city of Sydney, Australia as part of the Humpback Icon Project.

SONGLINES documents the evolution of the intricate and beautiful East Australian Humpback song. An hour of pristine digital recordings selected from five different years between 1992 and 2008 which draw the listener into a mysterious and majestic world.

Established in 1988, The Oceania Project is an independent, non-profit research organization dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales, dolphins and the oceans.

Humpback whale songs are transferred from year to year and evolve in a similar fashion to the verbally transmitted tribal lore of Aboriginal cultures from where the term songlines is derived.

The East Australian Humpback Whales travel in an unending cycle of migration between their birthplace in the inter-reef lagoon of the Great Barrier Reef and their Antarctic feeding areas.

Their world is comprised of vast stretches of ocean where songs emitted by the Humpback Whales can be heard over great distances. Each year the whales sing a new song. Haunting melodies of radiant joy which fill the ocean along the East Coast of Australia.

When ecosystems across the planet are collapsing and species are becoming extinct at an accelerating rate, the East Australian Humpback Whales are making a remarkable recovery. They have become Australia's national treasure and a symbol of hope for our imperiled environment.

We as the new generation of caretakers of the planet Earth have learnt from the mistakes of our elders and are helping nurture the Rebirth of a Species.

Audio CD: 5 Tracks, running time 60 minutes. Track 3 features Migaloo the White Whale recorded in 1998.

© The Oceania Project - All Rights Reserved

To celebrate the annual return of the Humpback Whales, sixty Australian communities are participating in the Humpback Icon Project. Each of these communities has adopted a known individual Humpback Whale from The Oceania Project's Fluke Catalogue:

http://bit.ly/HumpbackIconProject

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• humpback
• whale
• dolphin
• cetacea
• research
• oceania
• iwhales
• migaloo

[rutharriet]

Beautiful - we need to take care of the ocean and nature!!!!

[beatcrazy7]

do whales dream?

[jackjacktj]

When i was a little kid my grandpa used to tell me a story of a whale that saved a man who's ship had sunk in the sea. the whale swam up to the man put him in his mouth and took him as close to shore as he could. the man the whale had saved was a whaler. but he later promised to never hunt a whale in honor of the whale that saved him. its an old native American tale.

[SSQC23]

So beautiful. We are truly stewards of this planet - may we heal the Earth.

[uscoxes]

Sweet awesone amazing I love it when he comes out of the water just amazing

[yekeshgh1]

Beautiful video :-)♥

[nefera53]

this is so moving to see them so close to you and confident ! would be marvellous that they could live peacefully in clean waters with humans protecting them friendly ! nature is a treasure that humans are desperately wasting :(

[TheGoddessGaia]

Whales are the original keepers of the planet. Of course they 'dream' !!!

[jewelindisky]

THANK YOU <3

[lwanatt]

i bet whales dream about what it would be like to live on land

[tomgudgeon]

i dream of rainbows to thats prity magical

[Impreza69]

This is so amazing, how can u hunt this animals. They are so magical , cant take my eyes from them