Beautiful whale song Bermuda Part 2

This is the second part of the beautiful whale song we heard on Challenger Bank at the end of April 2009. I believe there are some whales that sing more beautifully than others and this recording struck us as being particularly good. We hear the humpbacks singing pretty consistently but it seems they sing more at night. When we have stayed out at Challenger Bank (15 miles offshore) overnight we hear the whales singing consistently. When daybreak arrives the singing stops although it may pick up at the end of the day. Are the whales singing to the whales still migrating north? I'm sure the other whales would recognize the 'voice' of a singer and may come to a known singer. Recently NOAA satellite tagged six whales, five of them females with calves. One of them was heading by Bermuda, about 125 miles to our west when it stopped for some days and then made a beeline towards Bermuda but passed slightly to our north. Was that a reaction to hearing the song of a humpback on a seamount?

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Pets & Animals

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• humpback
• whale
• song
• singing
• ocean
• aquatic
• wildlife
• japanese
• whaling
• cetacean
• north
• atlantic

[starywron]

In this sound is an cean of sadness, indeed.

One day we will pay a bitter price for killing those amazing creatures

[TirzaEbaybee]

such a beautiful sound<3

[mariearmone]

i can almost understand this in my heart. so sad they are, we are destroying ourselves...

[zytigon]

According to the standard phylogenetic tree, whales are known to be the descendants of terrestrial mammals that had hindlimbs. There are many cases where whales have been found with rudimentary atavistic hindlimbs in the wild. Notably Kyoquot station, Vancouver island 1919 case . For super books about nature & science try, ' The greatest show on earth ' & ' Unweaving the rainbow ' by scientist Richard Dawkins, also try PZ Meyers, Pharyngula, Talkorigins, Truth-saves.

[unanto]

sadness..

[hsbrasil]

sounds like me pooping

[thunderxt]

godzilla!



[xxLOMDxx]

This + rainymood = pure art.

[babygrlktty]

@railgap Personally, I don't think the sound is sad, I think their fate is sad :(

[babygrlktty]

Haunting and mesmerizing! Just beautiful. And sad.

[railgap]

How do you know it's a "sad" sound if you don't speak whale?

LOLANTHROPOMORPHIZING

[Homegirlisababe]

So beautiful. I'd rather listen to this all day then any human singer.