Secret Language of Whales Revealed


	Secret Language of Whales Revealed

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3-7-2007 7:05 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1944cbc5-89ef-44f9-8f00-ae02b59ea91b/2449621A-8C9C-498E-B511-B20726DB4841/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/070306_whale_whisperers.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/070306_whale_whisperers.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/070306_whale_whisperers.html"><DIV class="topheadline">The Secret Language of Whales Revealed</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/070306_whale_whisperers.html"><SPAN>Deep below the ocean's surface, blue <A href="http://www.livescience.com/whales">whales</A> are singing—and for the
first time, scientists think they know why. Researchers from the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography recorded the sounds and say they offer new insight
into the behavior of the passenger jet-sized animals.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/070306_whale_whisperers.html"><SPAN>Using tags suctioned to the whales’ bodies, researchers
tracked the whales and found that as they feed, they send out calls to let each
other know where they are, each group employing a different sound.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/070306_whale_whisperers.html"><SPAN>The noises play a similarly important role during mating
season when males sing long, low-pitched <A href="http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060322_whale_grammar.html">songs</A>
to indicate their reproductive fitness to females. Females select mates based
on <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=814&gid=52&index=0">size</A>
and estimate that by evaluating males' songs: Larger males can take in more air
and hold notes longer.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/070306_whale_whisperers.html"><SPAN>"By
listening to the animals," he said, "you can tell something about the
areas in which they are interacting to breed and that's important to know for
managing and conserving the animals." </SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2449621A-8C9C-498E-B511-B20726DB4841/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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