Sentences with phrase «of whale song»

St Lucia When you think of whale song, you think of the sound that the humpback whale makes.

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His band The Decemberists is one of only a few bands who could close a concert with a song about a crazed sailor chasing a whale and have every person there going nuts completely unironically.

It's a whale song of supreme glory, of supreme defeat, sung across the planes of time.

You can select one of the 4 soothing sounds including mother's heartbeat, rain, ocean waves, and whale songs.

For instance this sleep sheep, produces the sound of ocean surf, whale song, mother's heart beat and spring flowers, with adjustable volumes.

The Mariner's Revenge Song by The Decemberists — nothing like a tale of two sailors trapped in the belly of a whale to cheer you up.

To carry the same amount of information in a noisier environment, the whale songs have become more repetitive.

The Bloop sounds like it might have been created by an animal, but it is far louder than any whale song, so a marine creature that made it would either be bigger than any whale, or a much more efficient producer of sound.

During 1997, US undersea monitoring equipment heard a series of sounds far louder than any whale song.

Middle Valley - 2,400 m, Planned studies of tectonic shifts, whale song and vents; 2.

The word «song» is used in particular to describe the pattern of regular and predictable sounds made by some species of whales (notably the humpback) in a way that is reminiscent of human singing.

Walking Whale French artist Marguerite Humeau has re-created the song of Ambulocetus, a mammal that walked on land and swam like an otter.

I mean, if you've ever heard the eerie song of the humpback whale [whale song], you know that it don't sound like no spring peeper [frog sound].

She guesses that the high density of whales off the east coast of Australia affords more opportunity for new songs to arise than in a sparsely populated region such as French Polynesia.

During breeding season, which takes place over the winter months, groups of male humpback whales will display for potential mates by singing their famously haunting songs, breaching, and performing a host of other competitive displays that depend on speed, strength and size.

Growing up to 50 feet in length, the humpback whale is a baleen whale known for its acrobatic behavior as well as its songs, the most complex of any great whale.

An acoustic ecologist at Cornell, Clark says whale song is the equivalent of visual communication for human beings.

But the whales seem to get sick of their songs relatively quickly as each song was only sung Read more about Bowhead whales prolific composers - Scimex

humpback A species of baleen whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), perhaps best known for its novel «songs» that travel great distances underwater.

It's Got: An opening song - and - dance extravaganza performed by retreating dolphins; the complete destruction of Earth within the first ten minutes; the mindlessly bureaucratic Vogons beautifully rendered by Henson workshop puppetry; underground aliens that give a good slapping to anyone who has an idea; Bill Nighy at his best as Slartibartfast; the entire crew of the Heart of Gold reduced to knitted wool simulacra by the Improbability Drive; Bill Bailey voicing a whale having its first (and last) encounter with the full force of gravity; and, of course, long queues.

A lack of Italian entries could bode well for Andrea Pallaoro's The Whale (although Venice seems more likely), and a number of other outliers such as Sean Baker (The Florida Project), Lav Diaz (When the Waves are Gone), Anup Singh (The Song of Scorpions), Guillaume Galliene (Maryline), and Nobuhiro Suwa's The Lion is Dead Tonight would also be welcome possibilities to the Fortnight's announcement.

Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls and Songs of Whales, Elephants, and Birds.

Jodi Picoult, 48, is the bestselling author of twenty - three novels: Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992), Harvesting the Heart (1994), Picture Perfect (1995), Mercy (1996), The Pact (1998), Keeping Faith (1999), Plain Truth (2000), Salem Falls (2001), Perfect Match (2002), Second Glance (2003), My Sister's Keeper (2004), Vanishing Acts (2005), The Tenth Circle (2006), Nineteen Minutes (2007), Change of Heart (2008), Handle With Care (2009), House Rules (2010), and Sing You Home (2011), Lone Wolf (2012), The Storyteller (2013), Leaving Time (2014) and the YA novels Between The Lines (2012), and Off The Page (2015), co-written with her daughter Samantha van Leer.

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly - fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

Offering reassurance to his little one and migration facts to young readers, Papa answers, «We'll follow the song of the whales, Little Blue, just like our family has for years and years.»

Mournful whale song and an organic musical score composed by Chris Kubie accompany George Guidall's telling of the uplifting story of a dramatic rescue at sea.

That's important, because it puts bats on a short list with whales, birds, humans and a handful of other animals that create specific, repeatable songs.

These «canaries of the sea» are highly vocal, and at Georgia Aquarium, if you listen closely you'll hear the high - pitched songs of the beluga whales.

Best of all, tourists will be able to make full use of the provided Hydrophone to hear the highly - coveted whale song.

As such, seeing pods of whales breach the water and hearing their songs is much easier than in other spots.

From January to March, inspirational whale encounters in the Silver Banks area are possible for the never - to - be forgotten experience of listening to whale song as the humpback whales mate off the North Coast from January to March.

Our 3 1/2 hour tours offer the opportunity to venture into the wild and ignite all your senses: the salty taste of the ocean spray; the unmistakable smell of a humpback's breath; the blow of a whale; the shrill sound of the gulls and eagles; the squeaks, squeals and whistles of the killer whales vocalizing through the on board hydrophone or the soothing yet elaborate song of the humpback males.

Frequent whale songs and sightings of turtles, seahorses, jellyfish, barracudas, manta rays, lobsters and large school of fish — this colorful diversity invites us to dive!

With hydrophones for listening to whale song, and a stable platform for taking photos of whales, you'll be taking home memories for a lifetime.

The Pacific Whale Foundation's Sunset Dinner Cruise sails out of Lahaina Harbor while a guitarist sings Hawaiian songs.

On board, we have an expert Marine Naturalist to explain the Humpbacks habits and instincts as well as to answer any questions you may have and with our state of the art Hydrophone you to listen to the whales song live through a marine speaker system.

Through my immersion in the world of whales, I discovered the work of Katy Payne, who in the 1960s discovered with her husband at the time, Roger Payne, that humpback whales sing songs.

In our new take on the song, David added whale - ish notes on his bass clarinet along with samples of the crackle and shoosh of floating sea ice and we added two new verses taking the story from the ice - locked end of the little ice age to this era of warming, melting and opening seaways.

Yesterday, to explore the stasis in negotiations, I had a Skype text chat about the disconnect between countries focused on whale hunting and whale protection with David Rothenberg, a friend and neighbor who is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of «Thousand Mile Song» — a book about whale communication.

It sounds almost exactly like the song of the bowhead whale, a rarely encountered denizen of arctic seas.

The mainstream scientific view about humpback whale song is that it's all a kind of pop music evolutionary strategy; that the whales all like the same hit song, but it has to be a continually changing new «hit.»

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Why don't they share more song types, like the whales off Hawaii and Baja — thousands of miles apart — that seem to sing the same Pacific Ocean songs?

Rothenberg, who wrote the widely discussed book on whale communication, «Thousand Mile Song,» reflects below on some recent research focused on the remarkably variable songs of humpback whales.

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe itÂ's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!

Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) living east of Greenland break into a wide range of complex, intricate songs, showcasing a...

Physorg reports that Christopher Clark, the I.P. Johnson Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has created state - of - the - art acoustic animations that show how whale song gets lost among the noise of ship traffic, and therefore whales that require the quiet of the ocean to communicate over miles of open water are not able to hear one another's songs.

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe it's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!

Payne, 75, is best known for his 1968 discovery and recordings of songs by humpback whales, and for finding that some whale species can communicate with each other over thousands of miles.

They provide us today with the first study of only the 2nd baleen whale found to sing songs.