Listening to the microphone 200 ft. below. She is the marine biologist you hear narrating the video.
The males sing multi-year songs with nested complexity to woo the ladies. When separated for months, they pick up their song from where they left off. Near, far, wherever you are…
“Marine biologist Philip Clapham describes the whale song as probably the most complex in the animal kingdom… The song is constantly and slowly evolving over time… An analysis of 19 years of whale songs found that while general patterns in song could be spotted, the same combination never recurred.” (wikipedia, with audio tracks on the right)
Since they have similar sleep patterns as dolphins (shutting one hemisphere of their brain down at a time) it made me wonder if they have similar sonic visualizations as hypothesized for the dolphins?
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