Ultrasonic calls of the Weddell seal, Antarctica - NEW scientific discovery!

[@Yasharvl]

Amazing. Thank you for sharing these recordings.

[@fatalmystic]

Absolutely love that soft beat at 4:36

[@bengerstein]

Thank you for more of this on the Weddell seals. Beautiful and very inspiring. Much appreciate the longer video/audio recordings you've shared too. I wish there was an archive available to access all of this rich material you've captured -- similar to the years of Lars Kindermann's PALAOA recordings still available on the PANGAEA database from that old audio livestream which used to be up.

[@MOOAntarctica]

Thanks Ben, We will try to set up a streaming/replay archive of this audio at some point. It is, unfortunately, a huge dataset which is expensive to host and manage on an academic budget.

[@ОльгаХолина-г5з]

Необыкновенно, красиво, таинственно, космически! Спасибо за записи!

[@terrydavis8451]

Its amazing you can see how similar their calls are to military sonar. The spectrogram looks similar you can see continuous waveform pulses and freq shifted. A CW/FM pulse is the most common ranging and targeting pulse you use when submerged.

[@theboringseal7000]

In water: cool techno, otherworldly refined and smooth. On ice: eeeeeeeggg!!!

[@fleetwoodvo8673]

Almost DEFINITELY sonar! What incredible animals!

[@TheOhanaBennett]

There you heard several different frequencies which paint slightly different echoes depending on depth, distance, etc. But have you ever heard the ‘ping’ of a Weddell Seal? The best description I can think of is ‘infinitely variable frequency’. Maybe the water appears as clear as air does to us.

[@mh605]

Wow! Just wow. Incredible!

[@thebadgerstick9492]

This sounds so unreal You could literally use them to make sound checks on your earphones or something

[@SigneKnutsonHypnotherapy]

How do I contact to obtain permission to use these sounds in music recordings?

[@mirandapanda5439]

Why would you need permission to use the sound of animal?

[@SigneKnutsonHypnotherapy]

@@mirandapanda5439 Recordings are the work of those who recorded them. It is good practice to obtain permission to use them, just like photos and video.

[@tbone6396]

Can you try and research other seals species and the sounds they make?

[@singaboiz]

Yes, it would be nice. Leopard seal, too, can produce high frequency sounds.

[@hc6157]

Very very cool