Humpback Whale Communication and the Search for Alien Intelligence | Stories of Impact

[@Serenelove520]

Omg, this is beautiful, and not enough people have viewed this. Tears

[@ShikiraPressley]

I have often thought that ocean mammals intelligence is so much superior to that of humans and that indeed, they can and do communicate a native knowing of galactical sounds; complex life forms, movements existing in the universe. I totally respect and love them.

[@LadyGreySpacePirate]

Sometimes I hate our own species so much I want to find alien intelligence instead. But then I remember how beautiful Earth is too! ❤

[@pariahmouse7794]

These guys (whales) ARE essentially aliens to us. They inhabit a world we cannot even venture to, and communicate in ways we are only just beginning to understand. They ARE aliens on earth. We just can't understand them yet. I am pretty sure they are smarter than we are... No, not pretty sure. Completely certain...

[@DevouredByADream]

Sperm Whales: What are we a joke to you!?

[@joeylawell3590]

Could you imagine how many songs have been lost to time, we have taken away their internet

[@liz-hi1ou]

Divine they r! Greatness ❤

[@dominic2123]

Mind blowingly interesting

[@janealexander1378]

Thanks, I'll tell him. (his big sis)

[@joegrizzly999]

All I'm getting is they have built in data compression

[@siccodewilt1]

This made me laugh too loud :D

[@95rav]

It said "Hot MILF close to your area. What are you waiting for?" Now we troll whales...

[@veganicolorsvc39]

They are full of Compassion. Like the wise old man, they are literal if you say something you must mean it.

[@vampsith]

Pretty sure if you spam Orca sounds, you’ll get a response

[@Whale_Tale]

How can I contact these? I am planning on shooting a documentary about freediving with humpbacks at Tonga next summer. Maybe we could help one another?

[@sanandakumara]

Look for James Nestor

[@Whale_Tale]

Guilherme Topper Are you sure? I’m asking, because as far as I know, Mr. Nestor is engaged in spermwhale vocalization research. We exchanged a couple of emails last year. The whales in the video are humpbacks.

[@sanandakumara]

@@Whale_Tale You are correct, but if you by any chance didn't know of him, it was a good starting point ;)

[@Whale_Tale]

Guilherme Topper Thanks for the advice anyway. ) Sadly, knowing James Nestor doesn’t help much, because he participates in lots of projects and answers me once a month.

[@TelmoMachadoSistemas]

@@Whale_Taleoi voce, trocou e-mail com o Sr. Nestor? onde posso ver os videos das baleias conversando, sem todo estes narradores, e musicas de fundo, apenas o som delas. ?

[@SeaOracle]

💓💓💓

[@robhenry4616]

Elaborate measuring of shannon entropy is old news for bottlenose dolphins and humpback whale songs with mixed results (dolphins may have a language, but it has to be far simpler than ours, and those male-only songs are whistled tunes, not ballads). The truth is that those other social vocalisations (other than their feeding calls) always looked far more promising than those earlier cases. It's about this obvious test was put to a large such dataset. Good luck, and I would love to hear more of this particular study.

[@liz-hi1ou]

❤

[@mono891031]

Creo que el lenguaje animal no es un codigo complejo como el nuestro, mas bien es un lenguaje basado en comprender la situacion de cada miembro o ser que nos rodea y a partir de ahi interprerar sus movimientos y acciones, para obtener una intencionalidad, juega mucho las distancias, los gestos, y el aprendizaje en base a la experiencia de como se expresa determinada especie teniendo en cuente su morfologia por ejemplo no es lo mismo probar que tan duro es una cosa con una mano que con la boca pero si un pez no tiene manos entonces debera responder a sus preguntas con lo que tiene ejemplo un tiburon dando mordidas.

[@fatttyyyyyy108]

so theyre trying to understand whales... how sad will it be when they find a whale that is slowly drowning and sending out its last calls. As it floats down, drowning, do its family/pod listen from above? One can only imagine, but one can be sure these beings know loss and family.

[@danlacrosse3662]

And still they hunt them and torture them with sound barrages. How profoundly cruel are humans.

[@riverratt101]

If only the music didnt overpower the people speaking...

[@liaml1896]

Why why do most humans insist on thinking that they, as humans, are the only other creatures anywhere that could possibly understand compassion or possess "intelligence". It's just so silly. Yes, we have thumbs but it's done a lot of harm just as it's done good. I mean Look at our planet, look at what we humans are doing to the place where we live. It makes me so very sad. I'm sorry, I just become very upset when people have to justify other life forms having sentience. It's ingrained in our culture for some reason that other living things don't matter. You are on the fringe if you feel bad when you kill an Ant, or pull up a "weed" to make your garden. We are so very lost as a species, I wish that something could make people understand that everything around us is alive, maybe the same way we are. And maybe even more than we are ...

[@MyMuse1111]

but off new hersey coast line These whales are washing up dead. Sonar is messing with their bodies

[@breAnnasmama]

Reading the title and interested in the study of whales and their dialects and language but come on .. Aliens ? Not giving any craps about hearing about Aliens right now ,so....anyway ..

[@texastaurus9271]

i just came here for the alien probes

[@LadyGreySpacePirate]

To be honest, I would tell them to stay away because humans are dangerous, believe me. Aliens would be shot on sight by the government or they would be tortured and taken an advantage of.

[@johnmarston2466]

Star Trek could be possibly right

[@AllthePrettyPurses]

Was waiting for a Voyage Home shoutout

[@Depth867]

なにこれ

[@siccodewilt1]

you got here because of a TV show?

[@azuresonic69]

これはクジラのコミュニケーションについてのドキュメンタリーです

[@Depth867]

@@azuresonic69 ありがと