A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-whale-thats-known-only-by-the-sound-of-its-voice/

by grzm • 3 years ago

132 24 3 years ago

iambateman• 3 years ago

It’s wild how much we don’t know about the ocean and it’s creatures.

Not so wild if you consider the fact that we don't live in the sea/ocean. There is a reason why we know more about land animals.

pineaux• 3 years ago

Also because in the sea life is more volumetric. Most sea animals move through the water at least in one stage of their life. Most land animals just move over the ground. Not through the air.

EdwardDiego• 3 years ago

I do love that there's still so much more to learn, especially when it's large animals that have avoided us successfully thus far.

shiroiuma• 3 years ago

These animals may be much more intelligent than we realize; many species could have avoided extinction if they had avoided contact with the evil and destructive humans.

pvaldes• 3 years ago

Yup, Rice's Whale was discovered as recently as 2021 for example. And is not exactly a small animal living in a remote location. USA native

shmageggy• 3 years ago

It was discovered in 2021 that they were a separate species. The whales had been observed there since the 1960s.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/marine-mammal-prote...

wouldbecouldbe• 3 years ago

Yeah especially a bit deeper it's wild & must be many animals we have yet to discover.

zeagle• 3 years ago

Very interesting read. The article linked from it about Erden Eruç is equally fascinating.

The 62-year-old Wauna resident Erden Eruç (AIR-den AIR-rooch), already the holder of 16 Guinness world records, was on his way to doing just that when he launched his rowboat from Crescent City, California, June 22, 2021. After 239 days and over 7,800 miles alone across the Pacific for the second time, he became the first person to row from North America to Asia when he landed in the Philippines March 24, 2022, securing two more world records.

Wow! There is reflecting from both him and his wife on the preparation and mental effect this has on both of them.

pikseladam• 3 years ago

"Gig Harbor resident, Erden Eruç (pronounced 'Air-den Air-rooch') completed the first solo circumnavigation by human power in 5 years and 11 days between 2007 and 2012. What started as a simple idea in 1997, had become a quiet obsession. A tragic accident which claimed the life of Göran Kropp while rock climbing together in September of 2002, finally put him in motion. Life was too short." Man this is a next version

Paul-Craft• 3 years ago

Title made me immediately think of 52 Blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale

userbinator2• 3 years ago

Given the elusiveness, I wonder if it's something else, military in nature, merely disguised as a harmless-sounding whale...

kergonath2• 3 years ago

Most probably not. If civilians heard it, you’d expect half a dozen of semi-competent militaries would have done so as well. And some of those militaries have objectives that don’t neatly align or have less than stellar opsec.

Also, it’s very difficult to keep secret a project that involves more than 10 people, especially if it involves building things.

capableweb• 3 years ago

Also, it’s very difficult to keep secret a project that involves more than 10 people, especially if it involves building things.

But not impossible, and there are a lot of examples of things being built (or destroyed for that matter) in perfect secrecy involving groups larger than 10 people.

userbinator2• 3 years ago

Sometimes the best way to hide something is in plain sight.

thworp• 3 years ago

What would that even be? Sonar would be most likely, but there is very little reason for secrecy there, since all the innovation is in the signal analysis not the signal itself.

Could be communication but why would you use a medium as terrible and lossy as sound in water?

Traubenfuchs• 3 years ago

Applying the troll's razor: Maybe it's just large scale trolling, nothing less, nothing more.

hoseja• 3 years ago

Why couldn't there be innovation in the signal?

sertbdfgbnfgsd• 3 years ago

A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice

I have a co-worker like this.

RadixDLT• 3 years ago

the name is kujira

singularity2001• 3 years ago

what's the name of the Apple series in which the last living whale dies

borg16• 3 years ago

Title reminded me of this episode of "The Wild" podcast[1]

This past summer, I was in Alaska in a little coastal town called Seward - a gorgeous spot on the Kenai Peninsula tucked between the ocean and some giant glacier-covered mountains. I met a guy named Dan Olsen, who records killer whale calls using an underwater hydrophone.

[1] https://www.kuow.org/stories/eavesdropping-on-orcas-love-gri...

A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice

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