Strange-Voiced Whale at Large in the Ocean -Study

[Dover]

Strange-Voiced Whale at Large in the Ocean -Study

Wed Dec 8, 2:01 PM ET Science - Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - A lone whale, with a voice unlike any other, has been wandering the Pacific for the past 12 years, American marine biologists said Wednesday.

Using signals recorded by the US navy to track submarines, they traced the movement of whales in the Northern Pacific and found that a lone whale singing at a frequency of around 52 hertz has cruised the ocean since 1992.

Its calls, despite being clearly those of a baleen, do not match those of any known species of whale, which usually call at frequencies of between 15 and 20 hertz...cont'd

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=3&u=/nm/20041208/sc_nm/environment_whale_dc

[On the Road]

1. 52 Hertz Instead of 15-20?

Maybe it has fishing line wrapped around its testicles.
:smoke:

[Waistdeep]

2. Wow, falsetto

Over two octaves higher than the group.

Nickname: Squeaky

[livinbella]

3. What type of whale could it be?

[aquart]

4. And it's all alone????

That poor whale!!!!!!!!!!

[xchrom]

5. wow -- maybe this whale is alone

for a reason?

[Nihil]

6. e.g., the others can't communicate with it?

Wonder if there have been any attempts to communicate between the
"normal" whales and the falsetto?

[zbdent]

7. On an unrelated note

Rush Limbaugh was seen swimming in the ocean during a vacation in California . . .