Ed Yong
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354 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 Sep
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It's amazing.
It's like, stop it.
I know, right?
Like, enough, please.
Yeah, so we're talking about whales and...
Whales, and we're talking about the really big whales too, so things like blue whales, fin whales, the largest animals that exist and have ever existed.
They communicate with each other with infrasound.
So that's sound that's too low for the human ear to detect and sounds that travels over very, very, very large distances.
In the ocean, a blue whale's call could conceivably traverse the entire span of, say, the Atlantic.
It is absolutely crazy.
So there were definitely cases where you could have a whale calling off the coast of Europe and detect that call with a hydrophone, an underwater microphone, off the coast of the U.S.,
When the Navy first picked up these kinds of sounds, they were, you know, they didn't know what to make of them.
And eventually they tracked the sounds to their sources, which were very large whales, like blue and fin whales.
I think it's still an open question of whether whales are really communicating over those kinds of distances, right?
So, you know, is a whale off the coast of Europe having a chat with a whale off the coast of the US?
It seems like implausible, right?
Those messages would take maybe half an hour or so to move across that distance.
But...
Maybe.
Yeah, so his name is Daniel Kish.
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