How is whalesong like pop music? (And why?)
Nothing to do with German, just lovely…
“What we know about humpback whale song is amazing. They typically sing head down, tail up. Songs can last from five to thirty minutes. All of the males within a population will sing the same song.
“One of the most elaborate acoustic displays in the animal kingdom, but there is still so much we don’t know. And in particular, exactly why they sing.”
Spend seven minutes with marine biologist Dr Ellen Garland, who has helped to chart the journey of humpback whale songs across the Pacific Ocean.
This Royal Society 8-minute short film is filled with illustrative animations that illuminate how whalesong, the moans, groans, purrs, whoops, whistles, croaks, barks, and bellows that male humpback whales sing, spreads across the oceans like pop music.
