🎶 Sound on 🎶 In 1970, Dr. Roger Payne released the album “Songs of the Humpback Whale.” It was exactly what it sounds like—36 minutes of strangely melodic grunts and growls, clicks, squeaks, and whistles. Dr. Payne distributed the recordings to as many human songwriters as he could, and soon singer Judy Collins used a humpback whale accompaniment on her album “Whales and Nightingales,” which sold 500,000 copies. When these whale recordings were played to a group of activists in the then-young

Blue Whale Nursery Rhyme

530K views · 45K reactions | : Julia Sumerling (@seajewlz) // In 2004, Dr. Jason Gedamke was recording underwater sounds in the Great Barrier Reef, and discovered the dwarf minke is the source of an unusual, complex, and stereotyped vocalization called the “star wars” call. Volume up to hear it! This regional-specific behavioral distinction suggests aggregate or community adaptive behaviors among subspecies of minke whales. | Ocean Conservation Research - OCR | Facebook