Using wavelet transformation processes, rather than more traditional Fourier transform methods, acoustics engineer Mark Fischer has found a new way of rendering eye pleasing representations of whale song.
Whale song visualised as works of art
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 1 February, 2010 to the design and art subset
Whales don’t twitter, rather converse politely among themselves
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 28 October, 2009 to the comment subset
Whales seem to understand that conversation is as much about listening as it is talking…
Natalia Sidorovskaia of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and colleagues have discovered that whales change the intervals between these echolocating clicks in a way that seems to prevent cluttering the echoes from these calls. “In other words, whales are [...]
Humpback whales safe from extinction, for now
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 14 August, 2008 to the comment subset
The survival prospects of the humpback whale are looking more promising as a result of a 40-year hunting ban. Whether the moratorium stays in place remains to be seen though.
Four decades after their hunting was banned in 1966, the humpback whale seems to have finally swum clear of the danger zone. On the newest compilation [...]
