The Whale Mother's Whisper Song
In 2017, marine biologists from Aarhus University in Denmark attached tiny acoustic tags to humpback whale mothers and their newborn calves off the coast of...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Zephaniah 3:17.
In 2017, marine biologists from Aarhus University in Denmark attached tiny acoustic tags to humpback whale mothers and their newborn calves off the coast of Western Australia. What they discovered stunned them. While male humpback whales are famous for their booming, elaborate songs that carry across entire ocean basins, mothers sing a completely different kind of song — a barely audible whisper, meant only for the calf swimming inches from her side.…
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