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Re: Blue whale vocalization

Subject: Re: Blue whale vocalization
From: "George Paul" geopaul7
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 9:38 am ((PST))
Those are sounds I would like to hear!   In fact, I might just go down to t=
he Sea of Cortez
to listen.  Wish I had more time in my life. . . .

Bernie, you are fortunate to have heard such things.

George Paul



-- In  Bernie Krause <> wrote:
>
> Whales often trumpet. Especially species that ply both littoral and
> pelagic habitats. I have recordings of humpbacks
> trumpeting 20 feet off our campsite on the northern tip of Chichagoff =

> Island (Icy Straights, Alaska, right across from the entrance to
> Glacier Bay), in Glacier Bay as well. Also, killer whales trumpeting
> and reverberating their vox off the rock cliffs of Johnstone Straight
> along the eastern shore of Vancouver Island. It is a common expression =

> for several species.
>
> Bernie
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:53 AM, oryoki2000 wrote:
>
> > Here's an interesting report of Blue Whale vocalizations, observed as
> > the whale circulated close to shore in Baja California, Mexico.
> > (Sorry, just a text description, no recording!)
> >
> > http://michelszulckrzyzanowski.blogspot.com/2009/02/whale-called-louis-
armstrong.html
> >
> > I thought Blue Whales vocalized at very low frequencies. Could the
> > sounds reported be harmonics of the fundamental call?
> >
> > --oryoki
> >
> >
> >
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