Dr. David Bashwiner

Like if everyone's like, are you going to go to Coachella this year?

Or are you going to go to Lollapalooza?

So if you could imagine like,

People that decide to go to Bonnaroo get there early, start singing.

They learn from each other and are singing each other's songs.

It's still a mystery why they don't do it in unison if they're singing the same song.

But they learn from each other what the song is of the season.

And they're singing that and that's functioning potentially like a beacon that can be heard from extremely far away so that when other whales are deciding, and especially like female whales ready to mate are deciding, you know, which feeding ground to go to, they're being influenced in some way by those songs.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So the song is a little bit, I mean, it must be somewhat individual for the individual whale to

somewhat unique to the Invisible Whale because it contains aspects of other songs they have known before.

But it also is very much like trying to match the current song of the group that the whale is in.

And then the songs, they have structure that's kind of like motive, phrase, phrase group.

And that makes sense.

So it's almost always structured like an A and a B. So like, that's your A and then your B. And it'll go.

And the way it might change even within the phrase is.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

It might like develop within the phrase, but then also over the course of months, it can develop in that way by adding or subtracting elements.

So the whale songs are, are highly structured and they do have function.

And then anything additional, like how much they enjoy it is like that stuff matters, but that isn't, that isn't going to be the thing that that's something that's kind of like invisible to evolution.