Madeleine Finlay
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2,527 appearances
37 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Madeleine Finlay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And when did it become something that researchers and scientists were interested in trying to decode?
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And do all whales make vocalisations?
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And give me a feel for what's in a whale's repertoire.
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We of course think of the whale song, but what other kinds of sounds are they making?
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And so, Emma, you've spoken to some of the scientists trying to decode whale sounds.
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And one of the scientists you spoke to, Valeria Vergara, she made some really charming discoveries about baby belugas during her PhD.
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Tell me a bit about this work.
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Oh, this was one of my favorite
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I love the idea that these baby belugas are babbling away just like us.
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But what are some of the things that they first learned to vocalize?
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And
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And this concept of an acoustic name tag, it really implies that these vocalizations that all different kinds of species of whale make are really important in their lives, not only among their own pods, but also personally.
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potentially between different groups as well.
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And one of the more prominent research groups in the space of whale communication is Project SETI.
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So who are Project SETI and what are they aiming to do?
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So tell me about
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So tell me a bit more about how different whales construct their communication.
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You mentioned coders there.
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How do whales bring these sounds together to potentially communicate with each other?
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there are
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