Strange-Voiced Whale at Large in the Ocean -Study

[rodeodance]

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Strange-Voiced Whale at Large in the Ocean -Study


Wed Dec 8, 2:01 PM ET Science - Reuters



LONDON (Reuters) - A lone whale, with a voice unlike any other, has been wandering the Pacific for the past 12 years, American marine biologists said Wednesday.

Using signals recorded by the US navy to track submarines, they traced the movement of whales in the Northern Pacific and found that a lone whale singing at a frequency of around 52 hertz has cruised the ocean since 1992.


Its calls, despite being clearly those of a baleen, do not match those of any known species of whale, which usually call at frequencies of between 15 and 20 hertz. .....

[ret5hd]

1. sounds like maybe he got kicked in the...

well, you know.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. If its calls "do not match those of any known species of whale", then

how can they "clearly (be) those of a baleen"?

:crazy:

[benburch]

4. By their patterns I guess?

Sounds like the variable here is the higher base frequency.

I am also going to guess that this was a whale with a birth defect, not a new species.

[annabanana]

3. NESSIE!...............................eom

[Minstrel Boy]

5. "Help meee.....help meeeeeeee!"