Beauty In Song.

 

      Have you ever heard whale recordings? Or like I previously suggested went whale watching? I keep going back to this because it is really what makes them so beautiful and unique. Whales communicate in deep and high frequency songs, about 20Hz-10kHz.

      A Researcher from University of Washington, Kate Stafford, first got a glimpse of these songs and instantly wanted to hear more. So she got a group together and they set up sound recorders on the bottom of some icy waters past Greenland to see what kinds of songs they could capture. A year later it appeared that they had what was 5 months of straight song like material from a group of critically endangered Bowhead Whales. No other research like this had been captured since they were nearly  hunted to extinction in 1970's. On their tapes Stafford said that they had at least a song for every hour recorded. A paper that tells more about the details of the whale songs made the feature page on the article Endangered Species Research.

     Reading these types of articles are so interesting to me and I enjoy that we can find little happy moments in simply placing a recorder at the bottom of the ocean and let the whales create relaxing music for us. They cropped a few of the recordings into actual songs and they are quite beautiful and calming. I encourage you to check them out for yourself and join the hunt in saving the Whale species. Here is the link vvv 

Whale Songs.