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Strange-Voiced Whale at Large in the Ocean
Reuters (via YAHOO! News) ^
| December 8, 2004
| Reuters
Posted on 12/08/2004 11:18:53 AM PST by mattdono
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.
The mammal does not follow the migration patterns of any other species either, according to team leader Mary Anne Daher.
The calls of the whale, which roams the ocean every autumn and winter, have deepened slightly as a result of aging, but are still recognizable.
The study by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, appears in the New Scientist magazine.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cetaceans; coastalenvironment; marinemammals; tedkennedy; whale; zoology
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Hmmm...come to think of it, I have seen Ted Kennedy lately. [raise left eyebrow]
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:18:54 AM PST
by
mattdono
To: mattdono
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:19:40 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Liberals are OK with racism and sexism, as long as it is aimed at a Republican.)
To: mattdono
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. Maybe he's got a remora attached to his 'nads.
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:19:49 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Tagline temporarily out of commission due to excessive intake of gin-soaked raisins)
To: mattdono
well, that rules him out. ;-)
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:19:52 AM PST
by
Frapster
(secure the borders)
To: mattdono
Is it white? And is there a one-legged man after it?
To: mattdono
Yeah... The Michael Moore jokes spring to mind immediately, too...
To: mattdono
Is he wearing a Detroit Tigers cap?
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:20:18 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(Michael Moore wants your children...Regular is fine, but he really likes Extra Crispy.)
To: mattdono
To: mattdono
It's a Vienna Boy's Whale.....
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:21:10 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If the Red States are JESUSLAND, then the Blue States are SATANLAND......)
To: dirtboy
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:21:22 AM PST
by
ken5050
To: mattdono
Probably Ol' Bruce on the prowl again.
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:21:25 AM PST
by
Old Professer
(The accidental trumps the purposeful in every endeavor attended by the incompetent.)
To: RichInOC; The Electrician; Drennan Whyte; dirtboy
I just knew that this was going to be a good thread. hehe
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:21:26 AM PST
by
mattdono
("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
To: mattdono
The Incredible Mr. Limpitt?
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:21:58 AM PST
by
June Cleaver
(in here, Ward . . .)
To: dirtboy
Maybe he's got a remora attached to his 'nads. And he's telling us all how bad it hertz.
To: mattdono
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:22:13 AM PST
by
jackbill
To: The Electrician
and found that a lone whale singing at a frequency of around 52 hertz has cruised the ocean since 1992Maybe that's the frequency, Kenneth...
To: mattdono
The real question is, how well will it grill on my Weber.
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:22:19 AM PST
by
mlbford2
("Never wrestle with a pig; you can't win, you just get filthy, and the pig loves it...")
To: mattdono
A soprano diva who actually IS a whale!
The fat lady is singing!!!!!
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:22:22 AM PST
by
PeterFinn
("Tolerance" means WE have to tolerate THEM, they can hate us all they want.)
To: mattdono
> Strange-Voiced Whale at Large in the Ocean
To: mattdono
a frequency of around 52 hertz
Whale falsetto.
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