Humpback Whale Communication and the Search for Alien Intelligence

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The study of animal communication challenges our ideas of intelligence and informs our search for life in the universe. Among the most fascinating of vocalizations are the songs and sounds of humpback whales.
By studying these loquacious creatures, Laurance Doyle of the SETI Institute aims to uncover the vast wellsprings of communications that exist throughout Planet Earth-and beyond.
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@Serenelove520 3 жыл бұрын

Omg, this is beautiful, and not enough people have viewed this. Tears

@DevouredByADream 8 ай бұрын

Sperm Whales: What are we a joke to you!?

@ShikiraPressley 2 жыл бұрын

I have often thought that ocean mammals intelligence is so much superior to that of humans and that indeed, they can and do communicate a native knowing of galactical sounds; complex life forms, movements existing in the universe. I totally respect and love them.

@joeylawell3590 3 жыл бұрын

Could you imagine how many songs have been lost to time, we have taken away their internet

@veganicolorsvc39 4 ай бұрын

They are full of Compassion. Like the wise old man, they are literal if you say something you must mean it.

@dominic2123 2 жыл бұрын

Mind blowingly interesting

@janealexander1378 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'll tell him. (his big sis)

@joegrizzly999 4 жыл бұрын

All I'm getting is they have built in data compression

@siccodewilt1 3 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh too loud :D

@95rav 4 ай бұрын

It said "Hot MILF close to your area. What are you waiting for?" Now we troll whales...

@SeaOracle 3 жыл бұрын

💓💓💓

@vampsith Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure if you spam Orca sounds, you’ll get a response

@mono891031 3 жыл бұрын

Creo que el lenguaje animal no es un codigo complejo como el nuestro, mas bien es un lenguaje basado en comprender la situacion de cada miembro o ser que nos rodea y a partir de ahi interprerar sus movimientos y acciones, para obtener una intencionalidad, juega mucho las distancias, los gestos, y el aprendizaje en base a la experiencia de como se expresa determinada especie teniendo en cuente su morfologia por ejemplo no es lo mismo probar que tan duro es una cosa con una mano que con la boca pero si un pez no tiene manos entonces debera responder a sus preguntas con lo que tiene ejemplo un tiburon dando mordidas.

@robhenry4616 5 жыл бұрын

Elaborate measuring of shannon entropy is old news for bottlenose dolphins and humpback whale songs with mixed results (dolphins may have a language, but it has to be far simpler than ours, and those male-only songs are whistled tunes, not ballads). The truth is that those other social vocalisations (other than their feeding calls) always looked far more promising than those earlier cases. It's about this obvious test was put to a large such dataset. Good luck, and I would love to hear more of this particular study.

@Whale_Tale 5 жыл бұрын

How can I contact these? I am planning on shooting a documentary about freediving with humpbacks at Tonga next summer. Maybe we could help one another?

@sanandakumara 5 жыл бұрын

Look for James Nestor

@Whale_Tale 5 жыл бұрын

Guilherme Topper Are you sure? I’m asking, because as far as I know, Mr. Nestor is engaged in spermwhale vocalization research. We exchanged a couple of emails last year. The whales in the video are humpbacks.

@sanandakumara 5 жыл бұрын

@@Whale_Tale You are correct, but if you by any chance didn't know of him, it was a good starting point ;)

@Whale_Tale 5 жыл бұрын

Guilherme Topper Thanks for the advice anyway. ) Sadly, knowing James Nestor doesn’t help much, because he participates in lots of projects and answers me once a month.

@TelmoMachadoSistemas 5 жыл бұрын

@@Whale_Taleoi voce, trocou e-mail com o Sr. Nestor? onde posso ver os videos das baleias conversando, sem todo estes narradores, e musicas de fundo, apenas o som delas. ?

@musical1innm Жыл бұрын

but off new hersey coast line These whales are washing up dead. Sonar is messing with their bodies

@fatttyyyyyy108 3 жыл бұрын

so theyre trying to understand whales... how sad will it be when they find a whale that is slowly drowning and sending out its last calls. As it floats down, drowning, do its family/pod listen from above? One can only imagine, but one can be sure these beings know loss and family.

@riverratt101 3 жыл бұрын

If only the music didnt overpower the people speaking...

@johnmarston2466 2 жыл бұрын

Star Trek could be possibly right

@AllthePrettyPurses 2 жыл бұрын

Was waiting for a Voyage Home shoutout

@Depth867 5 жыл бұрын

なにこれ

@siccodewilt1 3 жыл бұрын

you got here because of a TV show?

@azuresonic69 2 жыл бұрын

これはクジラのコミュニケーションについてのドキュメンタリーです

@Depth867 2 жыл бұрын

@@azuresonic69 ありがと

@breAnnasmama 4 жыл бұрын

Reading the title and interested in the study of whales and their dialects and language but come on .. Aliens ? Not giving any craps about hearing about Aliens right now ,so....anyway ..

@texastaurus9271 2 жыл бұрын

i just came here for the alien probes

@YautjaSpacePirate 3 ай бұрын

To be honest, I would tell them to stay away because humans are dangerous, believe me. Aliens would be shot on sight by the government or they would be tortured and taken an advantage of.