No One Knows Why the Humpback Sings

[Donn]

Well, maybe it would be more accurate to say no man knows why the Humpback sings.

Nature does it again.

I just caught, quite by accident, what is apparently the third and final episode of a series about how whales and dolphins use sound.

Absolutely fascinating.

[Mrleft8]

Esmeralda.

[genglandoh]

Because he can not play the Piano.

[B_B]

When I was about ten Nat.Geo. sent out a floppy 78 of humpbacks singing with one of it's magazines. I listened to it for hours.

[Old Dryfoot]

This seems like an appropriate place to insert this...

[Shang]

Maybe they know how the story ends.

[Old Dryfoot]

Maybe they know how the story ends.

I like that.

[Shang]

I like that.

So do I.

[Donn]

Nope. The story doesn't end.

[bobbys]

Im watching it now {time difference}. Son

Andy fishes Halibut commercially in Alaska.

The Killer whales follow their boat.

Only thing they can do is move as the Killer whales pick off the hooked Halibut.

[L.W. Baxter]

When I was about ten Nat.Geo. sent out a floppy 78 of humpbacks singing with one of it's magazines. I listened to it for hours.

I had that record, too!
Nat. Geo. inspired me to draw nothing but whales for a couple years in grade school. Mom kept dozens of works from my "whale period".

[bobbys]

They wash up here.

http://www.beachconnection.net/news/...010310_729.php

[B_B]

I had that record, too!
Nat. Geo. inspired me to draw nothing but whales for a couple years in grade school. Mom kept dozens of works from my "whale period".

Cool! That and a map of Australia...I could rattle off the co-ordinates for some very obscure Australian places for years...

[bobbys]

Ever had a whale fly on your sailboat.

http://www.kval.com/news/local/121744459.html

[L.W. Baxter]

Ever had a whale fly on your sailboat.

http://www.kval.com/news/local/121744459.html

I've never even heard of a whale fly before, let alone had one on my boat! Fascinating!

[L.W. Baxter]

Cool! That and a map of Australia...I could rattle off the co-ordinates for some very obscure Australian places for years...

I even went to college planning to major in anthropology or paleontology, largely due to National Geographic. Then I got to University and discovered that the people I was expected to learn from were insufferable dullards. The History and Philosophy departments had better professors.

[B_B]

I even went to college planning to major in anthropology or paleontology, largely due to National Geographic. Then I got to University and discovered that the people I was expected to learn from were insufferable dullards. The History and Philosophy departments had better professors.

OMG! I went to school pre-law and found their Professors and students to be insufferable dullards so took a History and Poli.Sci. double major!

My brutha from another mutha!

(but I found Philosophy majors even more insufferable than the pre-law twits. Wish I'd stuck it out though, Lawyering pays a hell of a lot more than under-employed Poli.Sci.Histrionics)

[L.W. Baxter]

Yes, there were a lot of phonies at the Philosophy lectures. I was embarrassed for all the idiots who chewed on their pens and nodded like they understood Kant. I did not, and I refused to pretend like I did. I got an A. Like I said, the professors were cool.

Whales are cool, too, to bring the conversation back around.

[Barry]

I know why, because they can. And given the opppurtinity, they'll sing at the Met.

[switters]

"Fluke" by Christopher Moore will explain everything.

Kidding, but I have seen all of the PBS whale shows, great stuff.

[Gerarddm]

Perhaps they are simply happy.