Love Songs of Bowhead Whales

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Love Songs of Bowhead Whales: Whales Sings With 'More Than One Voice'

ScienceDaily (July 29, 2009) — It wasn’t that many years ago that the bowhead whale was written off as extinct in the waters around Greenland and especially in Disko Bay in northwest Greenland where University of Copenhagen has its Arctic Field Station.But now the situation has changed and adult bowhead whales, which can grow up to 18 metres long and weigh 100 tons, have returned to the bay. This is probably because global warming has opened up the Northwest Passage, making it ice free at certain times of the year for the first time in 125,000 years.

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Cetacea are Whales the only Creatures of the sea to Sing Love songs? Do Orca ?

I am Watching Sea Hunt here I cannot believe it, I really do Hope that people didn't grow up and learn the wrong ID of Species through this show, it is so Bogus.

Me and my Wife are sitting here right now watching a Old Ocean Diving Series Called : “Sea Hunt” does anyone remember this old 1950’s YV series, well this scene has the Star of the Show Lloyd Bridges, (Mike Nelson in the Show, his a Women and a Driving friend are bobbing in the water upon the surface, with a Inner tube net, diving for Abalone off the California Coast not fat from shore, anyways they show them all panic because a Killer Whale (Orca) is swimming towards them, and it eats one of their friends, ok, well the problem here is, they are showing it, and it is a Pilot Whale, they are saying it is a Killer Whale in the show but it is a Pilot Whale, the Show is give the Viewer Misinformation, miss Identifying the Species, I don’t know if a Orca will attack a team of Divers, or if a Pilot Whale will Eat a diver, but this show is bogus, capital B, I wonder how many other Ocean Species the Show is Miss Identifying.

Wow talk about Bogus, not to mention another episode showed Mike Nelson at the bottom with Scuba Tanks, and all of these Spices swim over to check him out, a Ray, and all the other Species and we are going no way, it was suppose to be filmed off of a Mexican Island, and there from the Boat in the back ground is none other than Avalon Bay Catalina Island, 26 miles off of Cali, our old favorite diving grounds, and then the credits roll at the end of the show, and it states the Underwater seine was in fact in a Aquarium Tank at Marine land. What a Crock Show, talk about Bogus.

Edited August 1, 2009 by Enigmatic Ghost

[Cetacea]

Cetacea are Whales the only Creatures of the sea to Sing Love songs? Do Orca ?

I do think the great whales are the only ones that sing, the sounds produced by baleen whales and toothed whales are quite different. Dolphins generally don't sing but communicate with whistles and clicks which are a lot shorter. I doubt that orcas sing or do anything equivalent as their mating strategies are quite different, Bowhead whales probably have to attract mates over great distances whereas orcas are more likely to find mates in their vicinity, baleen whale songs often incorporates repeated low frequency notes that travel far. Resident orcas, although they do not mate within their own pod, certainly have quite a number of other pods in their close vicinity that they can choose from.

[Enigmatic Ghost]

I do think the great whales are the only ones that sing, the sounds produced by baleen whales and toothed whales are quite different. Dolphins generally don't sing but communicate with whistles and clicks which are a lot shorter. I doubt that orcas sing or do anything equivalent as their mating strategies are quite different, Bowhead whales probably have to attract mates over great distances whereas orcas are more likely to find mates in their vicinity, baleen whale songs often incorporates repeated low frequency notes that travel far. Resident orcas, although they do not mate within their own pod, certainly have quite a number of other pods in their close vicinity that they can choose from.

Can the Whales communicate over long distances though, I mean, the Sea is so very noise polluted as to say three centuries ago, does their songs still travel as far? it has to be very hard for all the Oceans Species in this present Day of age? Doesn’t the Military interfere with Sonar, does that hurt the Whales at all? I am really appalled, as California has just announced that they will be bringing back the off Shore Oil Rig Drilling for help Cali pull through the States Money troubles, the poetical for a Major Oil Deserter off of the Coastline could devastate a Already Strained Costal Species, and as well Devastate the Poor Others, I am so p***ed off at the Cali Government right now . I am so p***ed off about it, those Sea Otters don’t need any more Losses and hardships. Sorry to post downer stuff Cetacea but it has to be known what they are doing.

Thank you for replying above Cetacea

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Can the Whales communicate over long distances though, I mean, the Sea is so very noise polluted as to say three centuries ago, does their songs still travel as far? it has to be very hard for all the Oceans Species in this present Day of age? Doesn’t the Military interfere with Sonar, does that hurt the Whales at all? I am really appalled, as California has just announced that they will be bringing back the off Shore Oil Rig Drilling for help Cali pull through the States Money troubles, the poetical for a Major Oil Deserter off of the Coastline could devastate a Already Strained Costal Species, and as well Devastate the Poor Others, I am so p***ed off at the Cali Government right now . I am so p***ed off about it, those Sea Otters don’t need any more Losses and hardships. Sorry to post downer stuff Cetacea but it has to be known what they are doing.

Thank you for replying above Cetacea

As far as I am aware, for the most part they can still communicate, however you are right, it is getting increasingly difficult. Humpback whales have been shown to either cease singing alltogether if noise is persistent or to sing louder and more repetively. Sonar is definitely a problem and has been implicated in a lot of cetacean strandings.

For some more information see:

Oceans of Noise- a report by the WDCS about noise pollution and it's effects

[Enigmatic Ghost]

Can the Whales communicate over long distances though, I mean, the Sea is so very noise polluted as to say three centuries ago, does their songs still travel as far? it has to be very hard for all the Oceans Species in this present Day of age? Doesn’t the Military interfere with Sonar, does that hurt the Whales at all? I am really appalled, as California has just announced that they will be bringing back the off Shore Oil Rig Drilling for help Cali pull through the States Money troubles, the poetical for a Major Oil Deserter off of the Coastline could devastate a Already Strained Costal Species, and as well Devastate the Poor Others, I am so p***ed off at the Cali Government right now . I am so p***ed off about it, those Sea Otters don’t need any more Losses and hardships. Sorry to post downer stuff Cetacea but it has to be known what they are doing.

Thank you for replying above Cetacea

Up Date: Yahoooo! The Environmentalist and the California State regulators were able to Shut down the Move to Place any new Off Shore Oil Rigs off of the California Coastline, Victory!! for the Sea Otters!! But as Big Oil Corps Backed by Greed will do, they will continue to try with changes and Lobbyists.

Edited August 3, 2009 by Enigmatic Ghost