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.
And liberals say the Military does nothing for conservation...
His call probably haunts Mark Morford at night. Morfod must want to go pierce that whale with his harpoon.
A Soprano Whale.
It swims with the fishes.
So9
OMG! This is the Great White Whale, which was prophecied to come and lead all Whales out of bondage and into the freedom of the Promised Sea!
Pinggggggggggggggggggggg
Singing or just talking? regardless, it's good that we're spending millions listening to whales sing.
Uh-oh shaggy.....time to change your frequency
Where else would it be?
Well, no, actually. And now, I'm kind of wish I hadn't posted the thread after that.
Nuke it!
I shall have nightmarea tonight, thanks to you...
Wasn't this a Star Trek movie?
More like billions.
We're actually listening to all the submarines of all the countries in the world. However the network also just happens to record whales as well.
Not me. I prefer a 60 cycle hum.
Some ocean Discovery channel type show briefly talked about the sound monitoring system and the guy was playing tapes of whales, etc.
He played one that was distinctly different than the other ones - sounded almost electrical or "alien" like - much weirder than the others. He said we have NO idea what this is - and said it comes from some remote area (Middle of the Indian Ocean?).
....and thanks for all the fish.
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