Killer whale vocalizations, 100 minutes - MOO Antarctica

[@justmee112]

thank you so much for posting some whale song without cheesy-ass new age music. 99% of recordings of dolphins or whales begin beautifully with some whale sounds, and then after 2 or 3 seconds the goddamn synthesizer flute starts playing and I want to throw my entire laptop against the wall. Why ruin something that is so good on its own? No enhancement needed.

[@Suzzzzana1]

Totally agree! 🙃🐋💗

[@katalvarez3645]

LOL your comment had me crying laughing almost choked because I couldn’t breathe 😂especially the part of the synthesizer 😂

[@wizzardofpaws2420]

amen to that.

[@Gibeah]

YE

[@gabrielquinones3343]

Yeah they remix it

[@fabiovezzari2895]

Everybody gangster until orcas start planning destroying the hydrophone

[@aaaawill]

FINALLY! one video that doesn’t have the same orca noises on a LOOP TT

[@please.665]

The only thing I'd love more than this, is 100 minutes of Sperm Whale communications. Orca's are the acoustics, but sperm whales are the rhythm section of the ocean!!

[@wizzardofpaws2420]

Out of the hudreds of vids I've tried to find JUST ORCA SOUNDS this is it. Thank you!!

[@brianofphobos8862]

I can pick out individual words, concepts, questions and replies. Much of the grammar is discernible. They favor 3 word sentences. They use repetition as an intensifier. Very cool.

[@fabiovezzari2895]

Amazing, where did you learn that?

[@brianofphobos8862]

@@fabiovezzari2895 I listened. All animal sounds have meaning. Most are simple. One idea at a time. "get away" "I'm friendly" "come here" "danger!" Whale language is much more complex. Listen for the structure.

[@brianofphobos8862]

I would say a whale language would be more like a pidgin then a formal human language. Since they do not have writing and groups are often separated for long stretches of time, a less rigidly structured communication system would be expected.

[@amyk6403]

And different voices...

[@brianofphobos8862]

@Lady Saira Farooq They certainly do. We're going to be translating this stuff for a very long time.

[@irockluculent961]

Thank you for posting. The spectrograph enriches the experience so much.

[@Alex-dg2mb]

Incredible audio. Is this recording continuous? Maybe you could somehow train a neural net to associate certain calls to certain responses and work out some sort of ability to determine context.

[@grifalton]

these are usually obtain by passive monitoring, making it really difficult to determine context.

[@cgorder5059]

There is an attempt to do this using Generative AI with sperm whale communication, which is seemingly less complex than Killer Whale communication. But the project realistically needs 10k-100k hours of whale vocalizations recorded on hydrophones. Even then, it won't really be a Rosetta stone but more like an AI whale that we still don't understand well.

[@soencoda754]

This has been done for orcas ! Look at a paper called "do orcas (or killer whales? Don't remember) have semantic language?" They trained a neural network to do exactly that. The network predicted context very accurately. However I haven't seen much work trying to pin point the specific clues the DL algorithm picked up on. More reasearches are coming tho (including some by me in a few months!)

[@amyk6403]

I wonder what's up with the sections of pefectly-spaced repetitions of the same sound. It's like counting or time keeping.

[@PierreROBERTdeLATOUR]

Whats your software for the spectrum

[@my2cents980]

I could listen to this all day! ORCAS are my favorite animals! Humanity has to come together and release all the Tragically captive orcas into seaside ocean sanctuaries...........SEA WORLD globally needs to be completely SHUT DOWN! 🐳🐬💦🌊💧💙

[@christianvandermaas8932]

I have an idea … a very very beautiful idea. Where everyone wins 😊. Have a live feed from a Whale watching tour get up linked to a huge screen. See the real Orcas in their real environment LIVE !! Done right … Everybody wins !!!

[@Jaksi-a]

They're such a fascinating animal. They're very sophisticated, more than we know at this point.

[@fghsinging]

​@christianvandermaas8932 not just a whale watching tour. Have an underwater camera mounted where whales congregate.

[@gabrielquinones3343]

Sea world is in America not around the world

[@gabrielquinones3343]

Or have a glass bottom of the whale watching boat so people could see them and get something the whales like and attract them to the ship and you can give them food and watch

[@momentumvault2489]

Creepy and beautiful at the same time.

[@BiLatKnee]

Is all of this content Orca intonations or is their some ambient noise such as the recurring bass notes that sound like prop noise and, possibly the hydrophone bumping around?

[@elliotw5918]

Yes! More of this!

[@cgorder5059]

If only I had the brain of a killer whale, I might understand statistics, wave mechanics, and probability distribution more intuitively. PS: Unaltered marine mammal audio like this is a godsend, thanks MOO.

[@tristansotomayor8354]

UNBELIEVABLE

[@Ki30]

Nothing like listening to an orca crack a joke and then another one laughing to it 😂 i like to think they are silly creatures that just goof off all day while not hunting.

[@jiggyjones7229]

New favorite pod

[@hubbellrowe9012]

This is amazing.

[@gabrielquinones3343]

I bet they are having a discussion on what to hunt next and what the future will be like

[@zorro2757]

I love this.

[@NicoDiAngelosStygianIronSword]

i love this video so much

[@revanche1807]

Amazing.

[@orcinus_moon]

I wonder what ecotype makes this noise...

[@oliviathehuman3163]

Cool 😭😭😭😭

[@romb4649]

My favourite cetaceans!!!! 🌌🌟🐬🌟. 💙💞

[@Suzzzzana1]

Thank you!💗🐋💗

[@alexwohlfarth3395]

God’s creation is wonderful ✝️❤️🙏🏻

[@gabrielquinones3343]

They sound like birds

[@SaturnineFR]

It is very weird ! It sounds almost like horses !

[@wwondertwin]

I hope that one day soon we can spot all the "yo mama" jokes. I bet they have them since even humans have had them for thousands of years. It might be possible starting from the chatter of the younger ones towards their mothers, there must be often repeated sounds and at least one of them will mean "mother".

[@jdgetcbzhjsjeklas]

There are a couple of moments when it sounds like a woman calling out. It's other worldly.

[@riverratt101]

Wild

[@sai-gammarell]

One hour fourteen minutes talking. Where they on air or what?

[@adrintoul]

They were recording a “podcast”. Sorry, couldn’t resist

[@NicoDiAngelosStygianIronSword]

@@adrintoulthat was great ngl

[@DarthTron117]

Sounds like clickers from last of us