Humpbacks sing their fanciest songs at the bottom of a dive.
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Humpbacks sing their fanciest songs at the bottom of a dive. Researchers from Syracuse University stuck tablet-sized suction-cup tags on 16 males off Maui, recording sound and 3D movement together, which mapped an entire song onto a full dive for the first time. The most varied themes come at the deepest point. Not an easy feat, going up and coming down, juggling pressure and buoyancy and a finite amount of air, yet one whale sang for 16 hours straight. https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/humpback-whales-sing-most-complex-songs-at-deepest-points-of-dives/
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Humpbacks sing their fanciest songs at the bottom of a dive. Researchers from Syracuse University stuck tablet-sized suction-cup tags on 16 males off Maui, recording sound and 3D movement together, which mapped an entire song onto a full dive for the first time. The most varied themes come at the deepest point. Not an easy feat, going up and coming down, juggling pressure and buoyancy and a finite amount of air, yet one whale sang for 16 hours straight. https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/humpback-whales-sing-most-complex-songs-at-deepest-points-of-dives/
#ShareGoodNewsTooPretty amazing research. I do wish animal researchers would get away from this "mechanical" view of non humans and more towards a cultural, social view. "Attracting mates" as some isolateble core act, and not the complexity of what humans do to "attract a mate" are a tiny part of orchestras, dance clubs, story telling, social cohesion, and yes, getting laid.
This "instinct" nonsense, always attached to non human complex behavior buries social decisions inside a non-thought based, non-intentional, automatic framework. Even our dogs have fantastically complex social relations; what those whales appear to be up to could far exceed ours.
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